UN says another cyclone forming in Myanmar area

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A second cyclone was forming Wednesday near Myanmar, less than two weeks after it was devastated by a killer storm, the UN said. The United Nations' weather center is tracking a nascent tropical storm that is likely to become a cyclone, said Amanda Pitt, the spokeswoman of the world body's humanitarian relief program, in Bangkok, Thailand. "This is terrible," she told reporters, adding that it could further jeopardize the people who survived Cyclone Nargis on May 3 and the efforts to distribute aid for them. The UN's World Meteorological Center said on its Web site that "the potential for the development of a significant tropical cyclone within the next 24 hours is good."