{"id":348788,"date":"2025-10-28T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=348788"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:59:18","slug":"cyclone-montha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cyclone-montha\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Montha\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Cyclone <em data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"252\">Montha<\/em> has intensified over the southeast Bay of Bengal and is expected to make landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast.<\/p>\n<h2>About Cyclone Montha<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalingatv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cyclone-Montha-1.webp?resize=370%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cyclone Montha: IMD issues red warning for heavy to very heavy falls in ...\" width=\"370\" height=\"208\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Kalingatv<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Cyclone Montha is a<strong> tropical cyclone<\/strong> forming over the <strong>Bay of Bengal as a low-pressure system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Named after:<\/strong> The cyclone, whose name meaning <strong>\u201cfragrant flower\u201d was provided by Thailand.<\/strong> The word \u201cMontha\u201d means <strong>\u201ca fragrant flower\u201d or \u201cbeautiful flower\u201d<\/strong> in the Thai language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impacted region:<\/strong> The cyclone had impacts in <strong>Tamil Nadu, Odisha, and coastal Telangana with widespread rainfall and gusty winds.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These areas are at <strong>high risk of flooding, strong winds, and damage to homes and crops.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The system intensified into a deep depression by 26 October and later strengthened into a cyclonic storm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favourable conditions:<\/strong> Its intensification was <strong>supported by warm sea surface temperatures above 28 \u00b0C, low vertical wind shear, and adequate moisture inflow.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The IMD has indicated that the storm may intensify into a Severe Cyclonic Storm before landfall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Cyclone Montha has intensified over the southeast Bay of Bengal and is expected to make landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast. About Cyclone Montha Cyclone Montha is a tropical cyclone forming over the Bay of Bengal as a low-pressure system. Named after: The cyclone, whose name meaning \u201cfragrant flower\u201d was provided by Thailand. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cyclone-montha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyclone Montha\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-348788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348788","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}