- Cyclone Amphan formed over Bay of Bengal on Saturday and intensified into a Severe Storm on Sunday morning.
- The projections take the storm towards the West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts where it could make landfall on Wednesday.
- The storm could intensify into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm by Tuesday, with wind speeds of 180 kmph.
Even as India grapples with rapidly spreading novel coronavirus disease COVID-19, another natural threat looms over the east coast of the country. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed that the depression over the Bay of Bengal concentrated into a Cyclonic Storm during on Saturday evening and further intensified rapidly into a Severe Cyclonic Storm on Sunday morning and into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm on Sunday evening.
The system, currently lying more than 1000 km away from the Indian coast, is very likely to intensify into Extremely Severe…
