India Our Atlantic Hurricane Season may have gotten off to an early start with Tropical Storm Arthur, but a much, much more powerful storm is underway on the other side of the world. But the greatest threat Cyclone Amphan brings is not necessarily its winds, but its potentially catastrophic storm surge. To compound the problem, the shallow Bay of Bengal and geography of the coast along India and Bangladesh make the region very vulnerable to storm surge. Current estimates are that 13-16 feet of storm surge may occur along somewhere near the India/Bangladesh border. The deadliest tropical cyclone in world history occurred in the Bay of Bengal in 1970, when the cataclysmic Bhola Cyclone made landfall in Bangladesh, killing an estimated 300,000 - 500,000 people.