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20 May 2020  

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NEW DELHI: The Super Cyclone Amphan barrels towards the coasts of Bangladesh and India with a wind speed of over 200 kilometers per hour.

Classified as ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’, the Amphan is likely to make landfall this afternoon or evening.

The cyclone is also expected to cross the coast between Digha in West Bengal and Bangladesh’s Hatiya Island.

According to the weather office, the Cyclone Amphan will result in heavy rainfall in India’s West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Sikkim, and Meghalaya.

It is likely to bring flood in certain low-lying areas in the state of West Bengal accompanied by strong winds.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has also warned this could even damage power and communications lines, crops and trees, roads and railway infrastructure.

The Cyclone Amphan is the of its kind of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season.

It is also the first ‘super cyclone’ to form over the Bay of Bengal since the catastrophic 1999 Odisha cyclone.

(With inputs from Agencies)

Publish Date : 20 May 2020 10:24 AM

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