Thunderstorms in TS to continue for the coming week, says IMD

The summer continued to be different on Sunday, with reports of hailstorm and thundershowers coming in from Komaram Bheem Asifabad and Warangal districts, where incidents of uprooting of trees and power supply disruption were reported.

Districts like Suryapet, Khammam, Mahbubabad, Mulugu, Jayashankar-Bhupalpally, Bhadradri-Kothagudem, Khammam, Jangaon, Hanamkonda, Karimnagar, Siddipet and Jagtial received light rains accompanied by thunderstorms.

Warangal received the highest rainfall of 73 mm, followed by Hanamkonda at 41.5 mm and Peddapalli 38.3 mm as per the TS Development Planning Society.

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per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the state will continue to receive rain or thunderstorms accompanied with winds gusting up to 40 kmph for the coming week due to a low pressure area which was running from south Chattisgarh to south Tamil Nadu. A yellow alert has been issued statewide for the same.

The maximum temperature is likely to dip, and the heat alert has been downgraded from orange to yellow, as most of the places are likely to record 40ºC or less.

Nagarkurnool was the warmest in the state at 42.4º Celsius and in the city it was Begum Bazaar at 38.4ºC.