Hyderabad: The coming 24 hours, starting from Sunday, will see vigorous monsoon conditions prevailing over Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh. Very heavy rainfall has been forecast for all districts of TS and coastal Andhra Pradesh while Rayalaseema has been excluded from the severe weather warning.
The change in the weather condition is a result of the low-pressure area that is persisting over the Bay of Bengal. The cyclonic circulation is adding moisture, resulting in cloud formation and rainfall. This system is likely to become more marked during the next 24 hours.
Telangana state is currently rain surplus by 31 per cent and Andhra Pradesh by 13 per cent, according to skymet-weather. During the last 24 hours, many parts of the two states received moderate to heavy rainfall.
Among the districts in TS, Adilabad, Kumaram, Suryapet, Peddapalle, Mancherial and Khammam have received excess rainfall. Medak, Vikarabad, Sangareddy, Rajanna Sircilla and Malkajgiri are in the deficit zone.
In Andhra Pradesh, a few spells of rain and thundershowers with strong gusty winds, lashed East Godavari, Guntur, Krishna, Kurnool, Prakasam and West Godavari.
Yellampally reservoir is half full
After days of rain, the Yellampally reservoir is half full with 10.51 tmc ft of water as against its capacity of 20.18 tmc ft. Nizamsagar has just 2.39 tmc ft (17.80 tmc ft total capacity), SRSP 12 tmc ft (90.31tmcft).
The Lower Manair dam has 3.49 tmc ft, just about an eight of its full storage of 24.07 tmcft. Singur has 8.07 tmc ft as against a total capacity of 29.91 tmc ft.
In the Krishna basin, Jurala has 60 per cent of its capacity, Nagarjunasagar is one third full, while Srisailam dam has a mere 29.09 tmcft as against its total capacity of 215.81 tmcft.
