{"id":323261,"date":"2020-05-18T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323261"},"modified":"2020-05-18T06:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T06:01:50","slug":"cyclone-amphan-intensifies-into-extremely-severe-storm-west-bengal-odisha-on-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cyclone-amphan-intensifies-into-extremely-severe-storm-west-bengal-odisha-on-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Amphan intensifies into \u2018extremely severe storm\u2019; West Bengal, Odisha on alert"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-304039 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cyclone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Cyclone storm Amphan over central parts of South Bay of Bengal intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A cyclone alert for West Bengal and north Odisha coasts has been issued by the IMD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The extremely severe cyclonic storm &#8216;AMPHAN&#8217; (pronounced as UM-PUN) over central parts of South Bay of Bengal moved north-northeastwards with a speed of 13 kmph during past six hours, intensified into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm,&#8221; the IMD said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cVery Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) \u2018AMPHAN\u2019 over central parts of South Bay of Bengal (BoB) near latitude12.5\u00b0N and longitude 86.4\u00b0E, about 870 km nearly south of Paradip (Odisha). To intensify further into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm\u00a0(ESCS) in next 6 hours. To cross West Bengal \u2013 Bangladesh coasts between Digha (WB) and Hatiya island in Afternoon\/Evening of 20th May as VSCS,\u201d the IMD earlier tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In view of the approaching Cyclone \u2018AMPHAN\u2019, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has sent teams to Odisha and West Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone storm Amphan over central parts of South Bay of Bengal intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. A cyclone alert for West Bengal and north Odisha coasts has been issued by the IMD. &#8220;The extremely severe cyclonic storm &#8216;AMPHAN&#8217; (pronounced as UM-PUN) over central parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014,2917],"tags":[13034,2174,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323261"}],"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=323261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323262,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323261\/revisions\/323262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}