Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan
- Cyclone ‘Amphan’ wreaked havoc in the eastern coastal states - West Bengal and Odisha – of India. It was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Ganga Delta since Sidr of the 2007 season.
- The first tropical cyclone of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Amphan originated from a low-pressure area persisting a couple hundred miles (300 km) east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 13 May 2020. Tracking northeastward, the disturbance organized over exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures; the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) upgraded the system to a tropical depression on 15 May while the Indian Meteorological Department ....
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