Slow moving storms have soaked parts of Texas and Louisiana this week and millions of people in the region are under flash flood watches into Thursday.
But of course, Bay of Bengal, very vulnerable region, 260 kilometer per hour winds gusting to 315 kilometers per hour and certainly a very slow moving system.
Slow moving and calm, easy to recognize by the pattern of white spots on its body and its wide, flat head, the whale shark is a secretive ocean wanderer.
Rising flood waters are causing alarm in the northern Philippines where a slow moving typhoon is cutting through the island of Luzon dumping heavy rains as it goes.
Manatees, also known as sea cows, are large, slow moving animals that live in the rivers and marshy coastal areas of West Africa, the Amazon, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico.