IMD-Hyderabad issues ‘Red Alert’ for parts of State, nights to remain warmer

A red heat wave warning has been issued by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)-Hyderabad for multiple districts in Telangana State for the coming four-days, as of Wednesday evening. The IMD-Hyderabad red classification indicates not only a heat wave warning but also entails warm nights wherein minimum temperature continue to remain unusually high and very high likelihood of people developing heat illness and



heat strokes across all age groups. 

The IMD-Hyderabad has advised that extreme care is needed for vulnerable age groups.

The districts for which red alert heat wave warning has been issued till Saturday include Adilabad, Jagtial, Jayashankar Bhupalapally, Karimnagar, Kumaram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Mulugu, Nirmal, Nizamabad, Peddapalli and Rajanna Sircilla.