Cyclone Chapala hit Yemen with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph Tuesday. The tropical cyclone made landfall about 25 miles southwest of a port city on the central coast of Yemen called Mukalla, which is home to 300,000 people, according to the Washington Post.
Effects of the cyclone are being felt throughout the area but most severely in Shabwa and Hadramawt.
Chapala has brought in large volumes of rain water in a country with rugged terrain that only gets around four inches of rain per year, increasing chances of mudslides as it doubles that number in just a day.
The World Health Organization said it had delivered trauma kits for 1,000 patients in Mukalla, which has been controlled by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula since April, and was providing fuel for hospitals and ambulances, according to BBC News on MSN.
UN has declared that Yemen is currently facing great humanitarian crises. The country is already battered by war due to conflicts between Houthi rebels and forces of the deposed President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi. While terrorist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS capitalize on the country's unrest, the rare landfall of a storm with hurricane strength has made the country's situation worse, CNN reports.
