The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert in Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha over Cyclone Bulbul in the Bay of Bengal.
The landfall of the cyclone was between Sagar Islands (West Bengal) and Khepupara (Bangladesh).
The cyclone has been named by Pakistan.
It is the seventh named storm of the unusually active 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season.
It is the highest in the last 34 years.
It will also be the second storm to form in the Bay of Bengal this year after extremely severe Cyclone Fani in April-May.
The Arabian sea, usually not known to be prone to cyclones, has had four major cyclones this year — very severe cyclone Vayu, very severe cyclone Hikaa, super cyclone Kyarr and extremely severe cyclone Maha.
This equals the record for the highest number of severe cyclones in the Arabian sea in the last 117 years.