Telangana Braces For Severe Heatwave As IMD Issues Red Alerts
Hyderabad: Heatwave conditions will intensify across Telangana from Thursday; The India Meteorological Department Hyderabad (IMD-H) will issue a red alert for several districts in northern Telangana and forecast temperatures to be above 45 degrees Celsius in some parts of the state in the next five days.
IMD said heat wave conditions are likely to begin in isolated areas of Adilabad, Komaram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial and Nirmal districts from May 14 and then spread to other districts such as Nizamabad, Jagtial, Karimnagar and Peddapalli by the end of the week.
As per the forecast, red alert conditions are expected in parts of Adilabad, Nirmal, Mancherial, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and neighboring districts between May 15 and May 17. Maximum temperatures across Telangana are expected to gradually increase by 2°C to 3°C over the next four days.
Adilabad recorded the highest temperature in the state on Wednesday; Mavala in Ramnagar mandal recorded 44.7°C. This was followed by Jagtial and Nirmal districts with a temperature of 44.6°C.
While Amberpet, Hyderabad recorded a maximum temperature of 42.4°C, many GHMC circles including Mehdipatnam, Charminar, Musheerabad and Begumpet crossed 41°C.
IMD said Hyderabad is likely to record maximum temperature around 40°C to 41°C under partly cloudy and hazy conditions in the next 48 hours.
Meanwhile, thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty winds of 30-50 km per hour are expected to occur in parts of Bhadradri Kothagudem, Khammam, Mulugu, Jayashankar Bhupalpally and Mahbubabad districts between Wednesday and Friday.
The weather department also said conditions became favorable for the southwest monsoon to advance over southern Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea and parts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands around May 16.
