Low pressure persists, brings rains in AP

Hyderabad, Jul 29 : Yesterday's low pressure area over Northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Westcentral Bay, South Orissa and North Andhra coast persisted today and was likely to move in a Westnorth-westerly direction.

Southwest monsoon was vigorous over Rayalaseema while it was active over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with rain occurring at most places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema and at many places over Telangana, Met department said.Bhadrachalam received very heavy rainfall of16 cm, Koyyalagudem (West Godavari district) and Kunavaram (Khammam district) 14 each and heavy rainfall in Dowlaiswaram (East Godavari district) 12 cm, Rajahmundry (East Godavari district) 10 cm, Koida (Khammam district) eight and Parvathipuram (Vizianagaram district) seven cm.Chief amounts of rainfall were also recorded in Dummagudem (Khammam district) six, Anantapur, Jammalamadugu (Cuddapah district), Mahabubabad (Warangal district) and Yellandu (Khammam districts) five each, Achampet, Kodangal and Kollapur (all Mahabubnagar districts), Allagadda (Kurnool districts), Badvel, Kamalapuram and Proddatur (all Cuddapah districts). Eturnagaram (Warangal district), Ichapuram (Srikakulam district), Paleru Bridge (Krishna district) and Tandur (Rangareddy district) received four cm of rainfall each, while Mahabubnagar, Nandyal, Tuni, Chintalapudi and Tadepalligudem (both West Godavari district), Golkonda (Hyderabad district), Kalwakurthy (Mahabubnagar district), Koilkuntla and Srisailam (both Kurnool district), Lakkireddipalli, Muddanur, Porumamilla and Rayachoty (all Cuddapah district), Macherla (Guntur district), Madhira and Venkatapuram (both Khammam district), Pargi (Rangareddy district), Patapatnam, Ranasthalam and Sompeta (all Srikakulam district), Tiruvuru (Krishna district) and Udayagiri (Nellore district) received three each.Moderate to rather heavy rain/thundershowers would occur at most places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and may occur over Rayalaseema.Sky condition would be cloudy with intermittent rain or thundershowers. Maximum and minimum temperatures would be around 26 and 22 degrees respectively.
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