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| Tropical cyclone Amphan 2020, NASA earth observatory |
On May 18, Amphan quickly intensified into a category 5 storm with
sustained winds of 265 kilometers (165 miles) per hour as it churned over the
Bay of Bengal. Amphan and other cyclones in the North Indian Ocean with winds
surpassing 220 kilometers (140 miles) per hour are considered “super
cyclonic”—the highest classification in the basin.
The storm is visible in this natural-color image, acquired at 1 p.m.
India Standard Time (07:30 Universal Time) on May 20 with the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The
extremely severe cyclonic storm had sustained winds around the time measuring
90 knots (165 kilometers/105 miles per hour)—equivalent to a category 2 storm
on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.
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