Heavy rainfall warning issued in AP

 

“Heavy rain would occur at isolated places in the districts of Nellore, Prakasam, Guntur, Krishna, East Godavari, West Godavari, Visakapatnam, Vizianagaram of coastal AP and Chittoor and Kadapa of Rayalaseema,” the IMD said. Moderate to heavy rain or thundershowers would occur at many places over coastal AP, Rayalaseema and a few places in TS.

 

On Wednesday, isolated places in both states received heavy rains while most of the places received moderate rains in the last 24 hours. In TS, the Hayathnagar mandal received 10 cm followed by Vikarabad (both Ranga Reddy district) and Pitlam (Nizamabad) at eight cm. Most of the stations in Telangana recorded rains in the last 24 hours. Pullampeta mandal recorded the maximum rainfall of 11 cm followed by Simhadripuram mandal (both Kadapa district), Srisailam (Kurnool) Srikalahasti (Chittoor) which recorded seven cm. All the districts from Rayalaseema recorded light to moderate rains in the last 24 hours.

 

In coastal AP, Markapur mandal of Prakasam received the maximum rainfall of 10 cm followed by Podili (Prakasam), nine cm, Atchampet, Garividi and Cheepurupalle (Vizianagaram) and Nandigama received seven cm.

 

“The rains are due to the trough of low pressure which runs from Odisha to South Tamil Nadu across coastal AP and an upper air cyclonic circulation over Bay of Bengal,” said N. Narasimha Rao, the assistant meteorologist at IMD Hyderabad. As of now, the southwest monsoon has been vigorous over Rayalaseema and active over coastal AP.