{"id":311738,"date":"2019-04-29T09:15:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T09:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311738"},"modified":"2019-04-29T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T09:15:26","slug":"as-cyclonic-fani-to-intensify-into-a-severe-cyclonic-storm-pm-modi-asks-officials-to-be-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/as-cyclonic-fani-to-intensify-into-a-severe-cyclonic-storm-pm-modi-asks-officials-to-be-prepared\/","title":{"rendered":"As Cyclonic FANI to intensify into a Severe Cyclonic Storm, PM Modi asks officials to be prepared"},"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-309370 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-.....-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-.....-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-.....-534x420.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-......jpg 669w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to officials regarding the situation arising due to Cyclone Fani and asked them to take preventive measures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSpoke to officials regarding the situation arising due to Cyclone Fani. Asked them to take preventive measures and be prepared to provide all possible assistance. Also urged them to work closely with Governments of the affected states. Praying for everyone&#8217;s safety and wellbeing,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Cyclonic Storm \u2018FANI\u2019 over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood moved northwards with a speed of about 04 kmph\u00a0in last six hours and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of April 29 near latitude 8.7\u00b0N and longitude 86.9\u00b0E over southeast Bay of Bengal &amp; neighbourhood, about 620 km east of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 870 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and 1040 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is very likely to intensify into a\u00a0Severe Cyclonic Storm\u00a0during next 06 hours and into a\u00a0Very Severe Cyclonic Storm\u00a0during subsequent 24 hours.\u00a0It is very likely to move north-westwards till May 1 evening and thereafter recurve north-eastwards gradually,\u201d The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The sea condition is very high over Southeast Bay of Bengal &amp; neighbourhood. It is likely to become phenomenal over southwest &amp; adjoining west central Bay of Bengal, off north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and south Andhra Pradesh Coasts from April 30 morning and over west central Bay of Bengal off Andhra Pradesh Coast during 1-3 May 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sea conditions very likely to be rough along &amp; off Puducherry, Tamil Nadu\u00a0and south Andhra Pradesh Coasts till\u00a0May 1, along &amp; off north Andhra Pradesh Coasts on 1-3 May and along &amp; off Odisha Coast from 2nd\u00a0May onwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fishermen are advised not to venture into deep sea areas and those who are out in deep sea are advised to return to the coasts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to officials regarding the situation arising due to Cyclone Fani and asked them to take preventive measures. \u201cSpoke to officials regarding the situation arising due to Cyclone Fani. Asked them to take preventive measures and be prepared to provide all possible assistance. Also urged them to work closely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11298,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311738"}],"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=311738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311739,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311738\/revisions\/311739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}