HYDERABAD: The new buzz word in the field of weather forecasting is ‘nowcast’, which will provide the weather conditions once in three hours in Hyderabad and other cities in the state. “The nowcast will provide real time information to the people in Hyderabad and other important cities in the State from this season onwards,” according to Disaster Management Commissioner RV Chandravadan.After attending a meeting with Chief Secretary S K Joshi on the preparedness for the south-west monsoon, Chandravadan said that the nowcasts would be useful up to three or four hours ahead of rains or any other weather conditions.
Chandravadan said that they put the Army, NDRF and police teams on high alert, especially in the vulnerable districts like Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Adilabad and other areas of Godavari basin. “We shifted around 12,000 people from Godavari basin areas to safer places last year. That is why we have alerted the Army, which recently conducted a recce in vulnerable districts,” the Commissioner said.The Disaster Management department also identified helipad places in all the vulnerable districts to airlift the people, if necessary. The stocks of essential commodities have been readied for three months, for distribution to the affected people.
Chandravadan said that they were expecting a 4 per cent excess rainfall this year over normal rainfall in the State.Meanwhile, at a review Chief Secretary SK Joshi directed the officials of all the departments concerned to be on high alert during rainy season. Joshi said that the Disaster Management department would bring out an App to give weather reports to the people.
Monsoon may arrive in the next 24 hours, pleasant weather in city
Hyderabad experienced a pleasant day on Thursday with overcast sky and temperatures dipping to almost 4 degrees below normal. Although the IMD had forecast that southwest monsoon will advance in some parts of Telangana on Thursday, it did not happen. But it said conditions are favourable for the monsoon to strike some parts of Telangana in the next 24 hours.
Light rainfall was recorded in some parts of the state, including Rajendranagar in Hyderabad, where it recorded 12.5 mm, which was the highest in state on Thursday. According to weather forecast, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places across the state and thunderstorms accompanied with gusty winds are also likely in all districts. Maximum temperature recorded was 33.4 degree Celsius in Hyderabad, which is 3.6 degree Celsius below normal. The highest temperature recorded in the state was 37.6 degree Celsius in Ramagundam, which is 2.7 degree Celsius below normal.