{"id":332177,"date":"2021-05-24T04:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332177"},"modified":"2021-05-24T04:31:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:01:26","slug":"yaas-to-cross-odisha-west-bengal-coasts-as-very-severe-cyclonic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/yaas-to-cross-odisha-west-bengal-coasts-as-very-severe-cyclonic-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaas to cross Odisha-West Bengal coasts as very severe cyclonic storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332178\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/1-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/1-1-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday said the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm &#8220;Yaas&#8217; is likely to thunder into the Bengal-Odisha coast between Sagar Island and Paradeep on May 26 after turning into a severe cyclone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yaas\u2019 is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar Islands around noon on May 26 as a very severe cyclonic storm with wind speeds of 155-165 kmph, Kolkata\u2019s Regional Meteorological Centre Deputy Director Sanjib Bandopadhyay said.<\/p>\n<p>The system currently lay 540 km south-southeast of Paradip in Odisha and 630 km south-southeast of Digha in West Bengal on Monday morning and is very likely to move north-northwest wards and intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday and into a very severe cyclonic storm by Wednesday morning, IMD said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday said the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm &#8220;Yaas&#8217; is likely to thunder into the Bengal-Odisha coast between Sagar Island and Paradeep on May 26 after turning into a severe cyclone. \u2018Yaas\u2019 is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,2916,2917],"tags":[14228,14267,14266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332177"}],"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=332177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332179,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332177\/revisions\/332179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}