{"id":26034,"date":"2018-12-18T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26034"},"modified":"2018-12-18T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:23:42","slug":"deadly-cyclone-phethai-makes-landfall-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26034","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Cyclone Phethai makes landfall in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"90\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Cyclone Phethai made landfall near Katrenikona in India&#8217;s Andhra Pradesh state, lashing the coast with heavy rains and wind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The warm waters of the Bay of Bengal aided in the storm strengthening into a severe cyclone &#8211; the equivalent of a strong tropical storm in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean &#8211; over the weekend prior to making landfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>The outer bands of the storm began to bring rain to northern Andhra Pradesh and southern Orissa on Sunday with rainfall totals of 25-75 millimetres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have evacuated about 11,600 people in Gajapati district as their houses are yet to be repaired after Cyclone Titli in October this year,&#8221; a senior official at the Special Relief Commissioner&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p><span>Coastal areas in Andhra Pradesh were battered with heavy rains Monday, leaving several trees and electric poles uprooted. <\/span><span>At the time of landfall, winds were recorded to be gusting to 120 kilometres per hour. <\/span><span>At least two people were reported to have died. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the India Meteorological Department, Ninnimamidivalasa in the city of Visakhapatnam received 156.6mm of rain, followed by Pachipenta with 136mm.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cyclone Phethai started weakening once it made landfall but the heavy rainfall is expected to continue into Bangladesh and East Bengal.\u00a0 <\/span><span>These areas can expect rainfall amounts of 50-100mm with locally higher amounts possible<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span>There is another cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal between Sri Lanka and West Sumatra moving northwestward. It may pose another threat late week for southern India.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone Phethai made landfall near Katrenikona in India&#8217;s Andhra Pradesh state, lashing the coast with heavy rains and wind. The warm waters of the Bay of Bengal aided in the storm strengthening into a severe cyclone &#8211; the equivalent of a strong tropical storm in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean &#8211; over the weekend prior&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}