CM reviews heavy rains in State

Hyderabad, Oct 22 : Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday reviewed the heavy rains in coastal districts with Chief Secretary Dr P K Mohanty and Chief Minister’s Office officials at Secretariat. He asked the officials to take necessary measures to help the affected people and the farmers.

The Disaster Management officials informed that the well marked low pressure area lies over west central Bay of Bengal and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal off South Coastal Andhra Pradesh- North Tamil Nadu coast. The North East monsoon has been vigorous over Rayalaseema and active over south coastal Andhra Pradesh. Rain occurred at most places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Rayalaseema and at isolated places over Telangana.

Chief amount of Rainfall in detail is (cms): Coastal Andhra Pradesh: Kavali (Nellore) 13 cm, Kavali(a) (Nellore) 12, Kalingapatnam (Srikakulam) 10, Nellore (Nellore) 9, Itchapuram (Srikakulam) 7, Anakapalli (Vishakhapatnam) 7, Anakapalli(a) (Vishakhapatnam) 7, Ongole (Prakasam) 7, Amalapuram (East Godavari) 7, Avanigadda (Krishna) 7, Sullurpeta (Nellore) 7, Narsapuram (West Godavari) 7, Koderu (West Godavari) 6, Atmakur (Nellore) 6, Gudur (Nellore) 6, Yellamanchili (Vishakhapatnam) 6, Visakhapatnam (Vishakhapatnam) 5, Rapur (Nellore) 5, Kakinada (East Godavari) 5, Darsi (Prakasam) 5, Addanki (Prakasam) 5, Podili (Prakasam) 5, Sompeta (Srikakulam) 5, Venkatagiri Town (dist Nellore) 5. TELANGANA:Venkatapuram (Khammam) 3, Perur (Khammam)2, Eturnagaram(Warangal) 2, Ibrahimpatnam (Rangareddy) 2, Mahbubnagar (Mahbubnagar) 1, Narsampet (dist Warangal) 1.

The Met Department has predicted moderate to rather heavy rain or thundershowers would occur at most places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema and at many places over Telangana. Heavy rain at a few places with very heavy rain at isolated places would occur in all the districts of Coastal Andhra Pradesh and in the districts of Kadapa, Chittoor of Rayalaseema during next 48 hrs.

Heavy rain would occur at isolated places in the remaining districts of Rayalaseema and in the districts of Mahabubnagar, Rangareddy, Hyderabad, Nalgonda and Khammam of Telangana during the same period. Outlook for subsequent two days: No major Change. A few spells of Rain or thundershowers would occur in parts of city. INN