Intense rainfall to continue in coastal AP till Tuesday: IMD

Visakhapatnam: Heavy rains lashed parts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh (NCAP), including Vizag city on Sunday, as the well-marked low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal turned into a depression over westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal. The downpour has led to waterlogging of roads, landslides, traffic snarls, delay of flights and trains. According to India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast, north coastal AP is likely to experience heavy to extreme rainfall on Monday and heavy rain in few parts on Tuesday. The IMD issued a ‘red’ warning (to take action) suggesting extremely heavy rains at isolated places over Srikakulam, Manyam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam districts on Monday (Sept 9), an ‘orange’ warning (to be prepared) for heavy to very heavy rains at one or two places in ASR and Anakapalle districts, and a ‘yellow’ warning (to be updated) for heavy rains at isolated places over East Godavari and Kakinada districts for Monday. The weather system is expected to move towards north Odisha-West Bengal coasts and intensify into a deep depression on Monday. The IMD stated that Vizianagaram recorded the highest rainfall of 11 cm between Sep 7 (8.30 am) and Sep 8 (8.30 am), followed by 10 cm each in Tiruvuru (NTR) and Kalingapatnam (Srikakulam), 9 cm each in Nellimarla and Denkada in Vizianagaram district and Bheemili in Vizag city. To ensure immediate action to deal with emergencies during heavy rain, Vizag district administration set up control rooms. For assistance, people can call collectorate control room on the numbers 0891-2590102 and 0891-2590100, police control room number on 0891-2590100, besides emergencies numbers 100 and 112.We also published the following articles recently