Cyclone Amphan : India and Bangladesh support for powerful tropical cyclone.
Officials in India and Bangladesh began evacuating millions of people before a powerful tropical cyclone strikes, amid the ongoing pandemic. The storm is expected to make landfall with winds about 100 miles an less than 36 hour and flooding rains. Officials in India's West Bengal state drove around coastal towns and warned people to leave. Many families headed to shelters that had been quarantine centres.
Both India and Bangladesh are still under particle lockdowns and infections in India have topped 100,000. There are fears over it is impact as the storm has been steadily growing in strength and it has already intensified into a super cyclone. This is the first super cyclone storm in the Bay of Bengal since 1999. Which killed over thousands of villages in the region have been evacuated and even as India prepares to face the elements.
There is risk of cyclone flooding rain, damaging winds, dangerous seas, Accuweather. India's east coast is no stranger to cyclones in fact exactly this time last year when the country was middle of a general election cyclone forming making landfall in which over 60 people had died. The state of Odisha which is directly in the path of this cyclone will be the hardest hit.