Heavy Rainfall Across Rayalaseema And Coastal AP Regions
Low-pressure system deepens over Bay
Amaravati: Heavy to very-heavy rain continued in parts of the Rayalaseema and south coastal Andhra Pradesh (region for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.
The weather office said a well-marked low-pressure area over the southwest Bay of Bengal deepened, bringing incessant rains to the interior districts.
IMD said heavy rains would continue on Thursday. Nellore and Tirupati districts will get very heavy rainfall while Chittor, Annamayya, YSR Kadapa, Anantapur, Sri Sathya Sai and Prakasam districts would also experience heavy rain.
IMD said in an advisory that Rayalaseema and portions of SCAP should prepare for continued intense rainfall. The low-pressure area initially positioned over the southwest Bay of Bengal off the Tamil Nadu coast has been moving northwestward.
“As it continues on this trajectory, the system may strengthen into a depression over the southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal, off the coasts of north Tamil Nadu and south Andhra Pradesh.”
The system would subsequently move across the coastlines of north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and south AP in the next 12 hours, it said.
IMD said on Wednesday, “During the past 24 hours Srikalahasti in Tirupati district recorded the heaviest rainfall of 19 cm in AP, followed by 18 cm rainfall each in Kodur (YSR Kadapa) and Thottambedu (Tirupati), 15 cm in Atmakur (Nellore), 14 cm rain in Sullurpeta (Tirupati), 13 cm rain in Venkatagiri (Tirupati), 11 cm rainfall each in Tirupati Aero and Gudur (Tirupati) and Kandukur (Nellore) and 10 cm rainfall in Tada (Tirupati).
