Hans News Service Hyderabad

Heavyrains lashed many parts of Telangana on Thursday as the low-pressure area passing through Chhattisgarh state headed towards Telangana, in line with the Indian Meteorological Department’s red alert on heavy to extremely heavy rainfall.

With heavy downpours in the districts, there was flooding in the Godavari and Krishna rivers and the water levels also increased in various reservoirs. Hopes of agriculture picking up in several villages also rose because of the torrential downpours. Very heavy rainfall occurred at many places over Komaram Bheem Asifabad, at a few places over Mancherial, Jayashankar Bhupalpally and at isolated places over Adilabad, Jagtial, Mulugu and Peddapalli districts of Telangana. Heavy rainfall occurred at many places over Jagtial, Mulugu, Mancherial and at a few places across Karimnagar, Komaram Bheem Asifabad, Peddapalli and at isolated places in Adilabad, Jayashankar Bhupalpally and Warangal districts of Telangana. The weather officials said that the Southwest Monsoon has been vigorous over Telangana. The IMD had earlier issued a red alert (indicates extremely heavy rainfall with over 200 mm rainfall) for the districts of Adilabad, Komaram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Jagtial; orange alert with heavy to very heavy rainfall in Nizamabad, Rajanna Sircilla, Karimnagar, Peddapalli, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mulugu and Kamareddy districts; yellow alert for heavy rainfall very likely to occur at isolated places in Medak, Sangareddy, Jangaon, Hanumakonda, Mahabubabad, Warangal, Vikarabad, Rangareddy, Hyderabad, Medchal-Malkajgiri, Siddipet and Bhadradri Kothagudem districts of Telangana. Strong surface winds up to (30-40 kmph) are very likely to prevail at isolated pockets in remaining districts of Telangana.

The IMD has also issued forecast for heavy rainfall or thunderstorms at isolated places in various parts of the state till August 3.

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