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South benefits from reverse monsoon
Our Bureau
Thiruvananthapuram
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Nov 2
THE successful run of the northeast monsoon in the southern peninsula continued into the last week of October even as Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu were made to fight some of the worst flooding ever chronicled.
Kerala was the sole exception to the trend, while south interior Karnataka turned out to be a surprise beneficiary of the reverse monsoon that brought parts of the IT hub of Bangalore under a sheet of water.
All three meteorological subdivisions in Andhra Pradesh received excess rainfall during the period from October 1 to 26 with Coastal Andhra Pradesh (+72 per cent), Telengana (+73 per cent) and Rayalaseema (+74 per cent) totting up figures in the exact ascending order of the number system.
While both Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema saw all districts returning excess figures, Telengana lost the recognition with two districts managing to record `normal' (in the range of +19 per cent to - 19 per cent) rainfall only.
Some of the significant rainfall recorded (in percentage figures) in the subdivision (analogous with the State) are: Prakasam (+117) and Vizianagaram (+94) in Coastal Andhra Pradesh; Karimnagar (+208), Adilabad (+159) and Mehabubnagar (+99) in Telengana; and Kurnool (+127) and Chittoor (93) in Rayalaseema.
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