{"id":1404,"date":"2018-06-20T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T06:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:08","slug":"heavy-to-moderate-rain-in-kolkata-brings-relief-after-gruelling-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/heavy-to-moderate-rain-in-kolkata-brings-relief-after-gruelling-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy to moderate rain in Kolkata brings relief after gruelling heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five days of intense, gruelling heat, Kolkata and its surroundings districts finally received moderate to heavy rain coupled with thunderstorm and lightening today.<\/p>\n<p>While heavy rain lashed in Salt Lake, Tangra along with wind, several parts of Kolkata like Camac Street, Chittaranjan Avenue enjoyed\u00a0moderate rainfall. It also rained in Howrah, Nadia, North and South 24 Parganas.<\/p>\n<p>The rain brought relief to unbearable heatwave even after monsoon arrived on June 11. The regional\u00a0meteorological department, Alipore however, warned that the mercury will shoot up once the rain stops.\u00a0But the heat is likely to come down from\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1881110371\">Thursday<\/span>\u00a0afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted the monsoon circulation is likely to improve from around\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1881110372\">June 24<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five days of intense, gruelling heat, Kolkata and its surroundings districts finally received moderate to heavy rain coupled with thunderstorm and lightening today. While heavy rain lashed in Salt Lake, Tangra along with wind, several parts of Kolkata like Camac Street, Chittaranjan Avenue enjoyed\u00a0moderate rainfall. It also rained in Howrah, Nadia, North and South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}