Cyclonic storm Phethai makes landfall in Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad, Dec 17 (IBNS): Cyclonic storm Phethai made a landfall in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday.
Two deaths have been reported from the state so far.
Keeping in mind movement of the storm,state authority has put seven coastal districts of Guntur, Krishna, West Godavari, East Godavari, Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam on high alert.
Teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) workers have been deployed in several areas of the state which might be hit by the storm.
NDRF tweeted: "#CyclonePhethai 12 Teams of #NDRF are pre-positioned at #AndhraPradesh and #Yanam to meet any eventuality."
#NDRF teams are on #HighAlert due to depression over #BayOfBengal.
— NDRF (@NDRFHQ) December 15, 2018
According to weather office forecast, the storm will cause rainfall with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places over coastal Andhra Pradesh and extremely heavy falls at isolated places over north coastal Andhra Pradesh (East & west Godavari, Vishakhapatnam, Krishna, Guntur, Vizianagaram & Srikakulam Districts) and Yanam district of Puducherry.
It will also trigger isolated heavy to very heavy in Odisha and heavy rainfall in Jharkhand. Rainfall at most places with isolated heavy falls has also been predicted for Chhattisgarh and Gangetic West Bengal.
Kolkata city woke up to a rainy morning on Monday and the sky over the city remained cloudy all through the day.
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