Heavy rains likely across Telangana today

The Met department has issued a warning to the State that thunderstorms coupled with heavy rainfall are very likely to occur at some places in all  the districts on Friday. According to a bulletin, thunderstorms associated with heavy rain occurred across the State on Thursday.

The rain is attributed to the upper air cyclonic circulation over the north coastal Andhra and adjoining south Odisha and neighbourhood



which now lies over the West-central Bay of Bengal off the South Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts, extending up to 3.6 km above the mean sea level (MSL).

During the last 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Thursday, the Southwest Monsoon was active over Telangana. Rain occurred at many places across the State. There was heavy rainfall in Khammam, Warangal, Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda, Rangareddy districts.