Gonu

Tropical Cyclone Gonu was responsible for many fatalities in the Arabian Peninsula recently mostly as a result of flooding. It lasted for 3 days from 6th to 8th June 2007. Muscat the capital city of Oman was hit most when torrential rains turned streets into rivers of water in this normally arid region. Some roads and bridges were damaged very badly.

Cyclone Gonu also affected southern region of Iran. Gonu stranded dozens of tiny villages in the deserts of Southern Iran. More than 100 villages surrounded by water in the Kerman Province. Dozens of villages flooded in Sistan and Blauchistan. Hundreds evacuated from Chabahir.

This rare cyclone in the Middle East is the strongest storm to threaten the Arabian Peninsula in 60 years.