Heavy rain likely in Telangana in next 24 hours

Heavy to very heavy rains are expected across the State over the next 48 hours as the well-marked low pressure area lying over east central Bay of Bengal is turning into a depression and is likely to strengthen further into a deep depression over the next 24 hours.

The State had already registered heavy rainfall at isolated places in the districts of Jayashankar Bhupalpally and Bhadradri Kothagudem since Tuesday, with Eturnagaram and Tekulapalle recording highest rainfall of 7 cm each.

 

The Indian Meteorological Department on Wednesday issued a heavy rainfall warning stating that the deep depression, which is expected to be formed in the next 24 hours, is likely to move west-northwestwards towards north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha coasts.

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system is likely to make a landfall between Kalingapatnam-Puri late night Thursday or early morning Friday. A trough also runs across the cyclonic circulation associated with the low pressure system.

As a result, heavy to very heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places in the districts of Kumuram Bhim, Mancherial, Peddapalle, Karimnagar, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Warangal, Mahabubad, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Khammam, Suryapet and Nalgonda. Thunderstorm, along with lightning, is also very likely to occur at isolated places in all the districts. Many places would see light to moderate rain or thundershowers.

Rain occurred at a few places over Telangana in the last 24 hours. However, there was no major impact on normal life.