Cyclone Amphan touched down near the border of India and Bangladesh on Wednesday.
Cyclone Amphan, the strongest storm ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal, made landfall along the coasts of India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, producing winds as high as 165 miles per hour and waves surging up to 16 feet, and forcing nearly 3 million people to evacuate their homes.... [+]
The landfall process, delivering extensive rain and wind gusts, is expected to last about four hours; landfall officially occurs when half of the storm's center is over land.
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