{"id":87250,"date":"2020-05-19T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15532"},"modified":"2020-05-19T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:30:11","slug":"cyclone-amphan-likely-to-impact-odisha-and-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cyclone-amphan-likely-to-impact-odisha-and-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Amphan likely to impact Odisha and West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Cyclone Amphan is likely to be a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which is expected to make landfall between West Bengal and Bangladesh close to Sundarbans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Categorization of Cyclones:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Category 1: <\/strong>Wind speed of 119-153 km\/h- negligible house damage, some damage to trees and crops.<\/li><li><strong>Category 2:<\/strong> Destructive winds of 154-177km\/h- Minor house damage, significant damage to trees, crops and vehicles, risk of power failure.<\/li><li><strong>Category 3: <\/strong>Very destructive winds of 178-209km\/h- Some roof and structural damage, some caravans destroyed, power failure likely.<\/li><li><strong>Category 4: <\/strong>Very destructive winds of 210-249km\/h- Significant roofing loss and structural damage, vehicles blown away, widespread power failures.<\/li><li><strong>Category 5:<\/strong> Very destructive winds speed of more than 250km\/h- Catastrophic damage with widespread destruction.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/2bnGeqnBQCaCAbXasdBizLnLtm7d5e4TTvBC7G4HzXyMOzotIlYJ-k-2TLV_fAnvrcN1Ep1UXwwRGO04wpRrWY8I3OSxSg7Hkz7ko3WpDKZTWqHTeUW8Gice7_8lELRpu91tsqA4\" width=\"624\" height=\"312\"><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Cyclone Amphan is likely to be a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which is expected to make landfall between West Bengal and Bangladesh close to Sundarbans. Facts: Categorization of Cyclones: Category 1: Wind speed of 119-153 km\/h- negligible house damage, some damage to trees and crops. Category 2: Destructive winds&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cyclone-amphan-likely-to-impact-odisha-and-west-bengal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyclone Amphan likely to impact Odisha and West Bengal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4996],"class_list":["post-87250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cyclone-amphan","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704782680},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87250","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}