Severe Tropical Cyclone Sidr is a Category Four storm in the Indian Ocean. It is about 500 miles south southeast of Calcutta, India.
Movement is NNW at 8 mph.
Top winds are 135 mph with gusts to 165 mph.
The storm will be near the Ganges River Delta near the border of India and Bangladesh on Friday afternoon, passing just east of Calcutta. It will affect the Indian state of Andrha Pradesh, as well as Bangladesh and Myanmar.
It will fortunately weaken before reaching land, but this is an area of the world that is very vulnerable to storm surge. Disasters of incredible proportion have happened here as strong tropical cyclones have inundated the low lying coastline, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths in some cases.
