Rains for Seema, south Andhra as Mandous to cross coast today

Visakhapatnam: Cyclonic storm Mandous over the southwest Bay of Bengal is most likely to cross the eastern coast by early hours on Saturday. It moved northwestwards and lay focused, on Friday, over the southwest Bay of Bengal, off north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts, about 350 km north of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 250 km north-northeast of Jaffna (Sri Lanka), 135 km southeast of Mamallapuram and about 170 km south-southeast of Chennai. IMD Amaravati stated the system is most likely to move northwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjacent south Andhra Pradesh coasts in between Puducherry and Sriharikota, around Mahabalipuram, with an optimum wind speed of 65-75 kmph, gusting to 85 kmph throughout the early hours of Saturday. As the system moved more detailed to the coast, it triggered moderate to heavy rains over parts of Tirupati, Nellore and Annamayya districts and heavy showers in parts of Prakasam district. Dr Sagili Karunasagar, researcher of IMD Amaravati stated heavy rains is most likely at a couple of locations in Prakasam, YSR Kadapa and Satya Sai districts on Friday night. Heavy to really heavy rains was most likely at separated locations in Chittoor, Annamayya and Sathya Sai districts on Saturday and heavy rains was most likely at separated locations in Tirupati, Nellore, YSR Kadapa and Anantapur districts the exact same day. NDRF and SDRF groups have actually been released to Nellore, Tirupati, Chittoor and Prakasam districts. Brahmadevam, Krishnapatnam and Akkampet locations in Nellore district taped a rains of 9cm and Naidupeta, Vakadu, Vidyanagar and Thogaramudi locations in Tirupati district taped 8cm rains throughout the last 24 hours ending 5.30 pm on Friday. There will be a boost in inflows to the Somasila Reservoir due to the heavy cyclonic rains in Penna basin, in addition to today inflows. According to the task authorities, 10,000 cusecs of water is being launched at first from the Somasila tank’s crest gates into Penna river. The outflows might be increased even more depending upon the inflows from the upstream. …
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