Widespread Rain Predicted in North, South Coastal Andhra from August 13

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• The India Meteorological Department (IMD), Amaravati, has forecast ‘fairly widespread’ rainfall for North and South Coastal Andhra pradesh from August 13.
• ‘Heavy to very heavy rainfall’ is expected in these regions on August 15 and 16, with an orange alert issued for several districts: Alluri Sitharama Raju, Prakasam, Palnadu, Krishna, Guntur, NTR, West Godavari and Eluru.
• Rayalaseema region will have no alerts on August 15 and 16; though, earlier on Sunday (August 10), an orange alert was issued for Annamayya and Tirupati districts while a yellow alert was announced for Kadapa, Kurnool, Nandyal, Sri Sathya Sai and Anantapur due to moderate to heavy rain.
• Strong winds (40-50 kmph), lightning storms were reported in Rayalaseema until Sunday night but are not expected Monday onward.
• Rainfall highlights: Veerapuram in sri Sathya Sai district received the highest rainfall of the day with 97 mm followed by Gangadhara Nellore in Chittoor with 71.5 mm.Other parts of Rayalaseema saw up to around 45 mm rainfall over two days that moderately helped address the rain deficit from past months.
• On a larger scale between June 1-August 10: Andhra pradesh received an average of only **247.4 mm compared against normal standards/targets set up-to otherwise normalised averages creating cumulatively measuring gap shortfall nearly…..