{"id":272255,"date":"2023-12-04T20:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=272255"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:57:20","slug":"a-p-braces-for-heavy-rainfall-as-michaung-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-p-braces-for-heavy-rainfall-as-michaung-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Michaung: A.P. braces for heavy rainfall as Michaung intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>Cyclone Michaung | Coastal Tamil Nadu braces for heavy rain as Andhra Pradesh gears up for landfall<\/strong>&#8221; published in &#8220;<strong>The Hindu<\/strong>&#8221; on 2nd December 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<p>Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are preparing for heavy rainfall in their coastal districts as Cyclone Michaung intensified over the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Cyclone Michaung?<\/h2>\n<p>1) Cyclone Michaung is the<strong> fourth tropical cyclone of the year over the Bay of Bengal<\/strong>. Other three were- Mocha, Hamoon, Midhili.<\/p>\n<p>2) India Meteorological Department (IMD) classified it as a <strong>severe cyclonic storm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3) The <strong>name of the cyclone &#8216;Michaung&#8217; was proposed by Myanmar<\/strong>, which signifies resilience and fortitude.<\/p>\n<h2>What are Tropical Cyclones?<\/h2>\n<p>1) Tropical cyclones are violent storms that <strong>originate over oceans in tropical areas<\/strong> and move over to the coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>2) The winds circulate in an <strong>anti-clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere<\/strong> and in a <strong>clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3) They are associated with large-scale destruction caused by violent winds, very heavy rainfall, and storm surges.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>For more information on tropical cyclones and its formation<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-tropical-cyclones-are-formed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click Here to read<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>How are Cyclones named?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cyclone-tauktae-expected-to-hit-gujarat\/#How_are_cyclones_named\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to Read<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus- Geography\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; This post is based on the article &#8220;Cyclone Michaung | Coastal Tamil Nadu braces for heavy rain as Andhra Pradesh gears up for landfall&#8221; published in &#8220;The Hindu&#8221; on 2nd December 2023. Why in the News? Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are preparing for heavy rainfall in their coastal districts as Cyclone Michaung intensified&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-p-braces-for-heavy-rainfall-as-michaung-intensifies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyclone Michaung: A.P. braces for heavy rainfall as Michaung intensifies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-272255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":5,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701716295},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}