Monsoon withdraws from Telangana

According to the India Meteorological Department, Hyderabad, the southwest monsoon has withdrawn from some parts of Telangana on Monday and is likely to withdraw from remaining parts of Telangana and across the country around Wednesday. Simultaneously, the northeast monsoon rains are also likely to commence over Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining areas of Karnataka and Kerala.

“The withdrawal line of the southwest monsoon now passes through Cooch Behar, Sriniketan, Ghatshila, Keonjhar, Nowrangpur, Eluru, Nalgonda, Nanded, Nasik and Dahanu. Cyclonic circulation over Southwest Bay of Bengal now lies over southeast and adjoining Central Bay of Bengal and extends up to 3.1 km above mean sea level,” officials said.

In Telangana, the monsoon arrived on June 12 and covered the



entire State in a week. Since the beginning of monsoon, Hyderabad, along with other parts of the State, received surplus rainfall each month with October recording the highest ever rainfall in the history of the city.

According to the data from the Telangana State Development Planning Society (TSDPS), this monsoon, Hyderabad received a rainfall of 1249.3 mm against a normal rainfall of 663.3 mm while Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri recorded 1,134.4 mm and 1,178.1 mm respectively.

The weather forecast from IMD indicates that there will be no more rainfall activity till this month-end. However, ahead of the winter, there would be a partly cloudy sky with haze in Hyderabad throughout this week with the minimum temperatures hovering 20 degree Celsius.