HYDERABAD: Telangana will continue to receive light to heavy rains till September 28, before the southwest monsoon starts to officially withdraw from the state.
The India Meteorological Department, Hyderabad (IMD) has extended heavy rain, thunderstorm and lightning and squall warning till September 28. Two more systems – a well-marked low pressure area over east-central Bay of Bengal that is likely to intensify into a depression and a cyclonic circulation, are brewing. These are likely to trigger heavy rains in many parts of Telangana for the next few days.
“Due to low pressure area, fairly widespread rainfall is likely over Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam and Telangana during September 25-28, 2021,” read the daily forecast issued by IMD on Friday.
This year, the withdrawal of monsoon is likely to commence only by October first week. “In 2019, the southwest monsoon commenced withdrawal rather late on October 9 and completed in the shortest record time of eight days, on October 17. Last year, the process started late again, on September 28. It is following the same track this year as well,” stated a weather report by Skymet, an independent weather forecasting agency.
