Hyderabad: Hyderabad witnessed an increase in maximum temperatures on July 13. The city had been recording a comfortable below 30°C as the day temperature but on Wednesday, the maximum recorded was 32.2°C.
There was no rain throughout the day. July 14 is not going to be a cool day either with the weather department of the city saying that the temperatures could hover around a warm 33°C.
It has been revealed that temperatures rose across the state on Wednesday with the highest readings recorded at Hanmakonda, Warangal (35°C), Nal-gonda (34°C) Badrachalam and Khammam (33°C). The IMD officials have called it an intra-seasonal variation.
Even the northern districts of the state received less rainfall on Wednesday as the low pressure area over north-east Madhya Pradesh and neighboring Maharashtra became less intense. Also, the heavy to very heavy rainfall warning over northern Telangana has been withdrawn.
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While the present forecast for the state is light to moderate rain with thunder, showers are likely to occur at a few places in TS. Also on Wednesday, rain occurred at a few places over Nizamabad , Khammam , Warangal , Adilabad and Karimnagar.
According to the weather, the southwest monsoon has now advanced into the remaining parts of north Arabian sea — reaching the Kutch and the west of Rajasthan.
It also managed to reach the rest of the country on June 13, bringing in much-needed relief to several parched regions across states.
But the low-pressure area that had developed on July 12 over the central parts of the state of Madhya Pradesh and the adjoining neighbourhood has become less intense and could soon fail to have an impact on the season soon. But associated upper air cyclonic circulation persists and now extends uptoaa 3.1 km above the mean sea level.
Godavari flooding alert off
The Godavari river, which had touched the danger mark at Bhadrachalam in Khammam district of Telangana on Tuesday night has now started receding, data from Wednesday morning shows.
The river, which had touched the 52.5 feet mark (the third danger level) has receded to 49.5 feet, according to irrigation officials. Authorities in the region heaved a sigh of relief as the flood threat to villages and towns in the district has now been downgraded after the Godavari waters started receding by Tuesday night.
A swollen Godavari has previously caused massive flooding across several villages and residential areas in the temple town, affecting normal life and disrupting free flow of traffic on highways.
A few hundred acres of agriculture fields were also water logged because of the earlier floods. The water levels in the powerful river started falling following a decrease in rainfall in its upstream areas, officials said.
