AP witnesses widespread rain

Hyderabad, June 23 (UNI) Bringing cheer to farmers, the southwest monsoon advanced into most parts of remaining Telangana today.

The upper air circulation moved over to land bringing more rain to most of Telangana, barring Adilabad district and Coastal Andhra, Hyderabad Meterological office Director Satya kumar told UNI.

Moderate to rather heavy rain or thundershowers were likely to occur at many places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the next 24 hours. Light to moderate rain or thundershowers were likely to occur at a few places over Rayalaseema, he said adding the state capital would have a few spells of rain or thundershowers during the period.

Rain occurred at a few places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Rayalaseema.

The chief amounts of rainfall recorded in cm were Chittoor, Guntur, Rajampet (Cuddapah dist), Wanaparthy (Mahabubnagar dist) 5 each, Vijayawada , Kadiri (Anantapur dist), Srungavarapukota (Vizianagaram dist) 4 each, Arogyavaram, Kavali, Alampur (Mahabubnagar dist), Eluru (West Godavari dist), Kuppam (Chittoor dist), Paderu (Visakhapatnam dist), Pargi (Rangareddy dist), Tenali (Guntur dist), Venkatagiri Town (Nellore dist) 3 each, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Anakapalle and Elamanchili (both Visakhapatnam dist), Chevella (Rangareddy dist), Dhone (Kurnool dist), Kanekal and Rayadurg (both Anantapur dist), Veeraghattam (Srikakulam dist), Vempalli (Cuddapah dist) 2 each and Kalingapatnam, Kurnool, Ongole, Tirupathi , Tuni, Araku Valley, Bheemunipatnam, Chintapalli and Narsipatnam (all Visakhapatnam dist), Kamareddy and Madnoor (both Nizamabad dist), Kandukur (Prakasam dist), Koida (Khammam dist), Mandasa (Srikakulam dist), Palamaner, Thambalapalle and Venkatagiri Kota (all Chittoor dist), Prakasam Barrage (Krishna dist), Pulivendala (Cuddapah dist), Rapur (Nellore dist) one each.

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