{"id":311714,"date":"2019-04-28T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T09:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311714"},"modified":"2019-04-28T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T09:51:53","slug":"cyclone-fani-likely-to-turn-into-severe-cyclonic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cyclone-fani-likely-to-turn-into-severe-cyclonic-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Fani likely to turn into severe cyclonic storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311715 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cyclone-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/cyclone-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/cyclone-437x420.jpg 437w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/cyclone.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cyclone Fani, which has been strengthening in south-east Bay of Bengal and the adjoining Indian Ocean, is set to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by Sunday afternoon, according to the weather department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday morning, \u201cThe Deep Depression intensified into Cyclonic Storm \u2018FANI\u2019 and lay centred at 11:30 IST, near lat 5.2\u00b0N and long 88.5\u00b0E, about 880 km from Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 1250 km southeast of Chennai. It is very likely to intensify into a Severe Cyclonic Storm during next 24 hours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCS \u2018FANI\u2019 over SE BoB lay centred at 2330 hrs IST of 27th April 2019 about 1110 km SE of Chennai. It is very likely to intensify into a &#8216;Severe Cyclonic Storm&#8217; during the next 12 hours and into a &#8216;Very Severe Cyclonic Storm&#8217; during the subsequent 24 hours. It is very likely to move north-westwards till April 30 and thereafter recurve north-eastwards gradually,\u201d IMD added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Light to moderate rainfall is expected at few places over north coastal Tamil Nadu and coastal Andhra Pradesh on April 29 and 30, the IMD said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone Fani, which has been strengthening in south-east Bay of Bengal and the adjoining Indian Ocean, is set to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by Sunday afternoon, according to the weather department. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday morning, \u201cThe Deep Depression intensified into Cyclonic Storm \u2018FANI\u2019 and lay centred at 11:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11298,1477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311716,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311714\/revisions\/311716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}