Cyclone Amphan 2020
Cyclone Amphan is the costliest cyclone on record in the North Indian Ocean causing over $13 billion in damages to infrastructure and crops in India’s eastern state of West Bengal.[3] It is the strongest storm on record in the Bay of Bengal and one of the fastest developing storms anywhere. Cyclone Amphan comes one year after Cyclone Fani, which killed 81 people in eastern India and Bangladesh and caused $8.1 billion of damages. Back-to-back years of major cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, that rapidly intensify over unusually warm sea surface temperatures, are consistent with trends showing an increase in cyclone intensity in the region due to human-caused climate change.[1][2]