{"id":36529,"date":"2019-03-21T05:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36529"},"modified":"2019-03-21T05:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T05:22:24","slug":"australia-braces-for-twin-cyclones-as-state-of-emergency-declared-in-northern-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36529","title":{"rendered":"Australia braces for twin cyclones as state of emergency declared in Northern Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Parts of Northern Australia are being evacuated as the region braces for two cyclones to make landfall in the coming days &#8212; one of which has the potential to be the region&#8217;s most powerful storm in years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Cyclone Trevor is expected to strengthen and hit the Northern Territory on Saturday as the equivalent of a category 3 or 4 Atlantic hurricane, bringing with it destructive winds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x1-UE8Ef5bE\" target=\"_blank\">up to 155 miles per hour<\/a> (250 kilometers per hour), heavy rain and storm surges.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">To Trevor&#8217;s west, Cyclone Veronica has strengthened to the equivalent of a category 3 hurricane since Wednesday. It is expected to peak in intensity off-shore, before making landfall Sunday as a weaker system.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Parts of Northern Australia are being evacuated as the region braces for two cyclones to make landfall in the coming days &#8212; one of which has the potential to be the region&#8217;s most powerful storm in years.Cyclone Trevor is expected to strengthen and hit the Northern Territory on Saturday as the equivalent of a category&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36529","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=36529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}