The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that rains of moderate to heavy intensity will also occur over the state of Andhra Pradesh, as the well-marked low pressure system was developing over West Central and North-West of Bay of Bengal off the northern Andhra Pradesh Coastage turned on to depression on Saturday 31.08. 2024 cyclone Selvina.
As a press briefing held here revealed S. Stella IMD Director Amaravati, further, the system is likely to track almost wnw and make landfall between Visakhapatnam and Gopalpur about 100km to the east of Kalingapatnam most likely around 12 utc on sat 19th.
There are expectations that the water surge would be experienced in the rivers that cut across the coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh in the next two days as well as the water tributaries of the Godavari and Krishna rivers. In the case of Central Water Commission, Nagavali, Vamsadhara, Suvarnamukhi, Champavathi, Gosthani, Sarada, Varaha, Sabari, Tammileru, Yeleru rivers will create a surge in the water levels. The CWC has issued similar alerts for rivers running through Telangana.
Westcentral Bay of Bengal, Northwest Bay of Bengal is likely to have rough sea countries up to 31 August, while in the North Andhra Pradesh coast squally wind unsettled to a maximum speed of about 65kmph occurred, as per IMD.
The official website of A.P. State Development Planning Society is still yet to incorporate the data from the last 24 hours, as of 9.30 a.m. However, according to the available information, the NTR district has received 2639.6 mm of rainfall during the last 24 hours which ended at 8.30 am on Saturday.
