But of course, Bay of Bengal, very vulnerable region, 260 kilometer per hour winds gusting to 315 kilometers per hour and certainly a very slow moving system.
The most powerful cyclone to affect the Bay of Bengal for more than 10 years has made landfall on coastal areas in Bangladesh and Myanmar, bringing record levels of flooding.
The United Nations and the government of Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on help for Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal.
Myanmar has been hit not just by the remnants of Typhoon Yagi, which cause so much devastation in Vietnam, but also by bad weather coming in from the Bay of Bengal.
The earlier years are when 900 and 700 Rohingya died or went missing in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, off the southern coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh.
It's expected to make landfall near the Ganges River delta where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra Rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal and that could bring major storm surges, a rise in seawater levels blown ashore by a cyclone.