Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has asked the people to take precautionary measures to avoid from heat and the heatwaves, which are going to be abnormal this year.
Mr. Naidu on Tuesday tweeted cautioning about the temperatures, which are likely to cross 45° Celsius in many mandals in the State during this summer. He asked the people to take steps to prevent sunstrokes.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director and Scientist Y.K. Reddy during a recent press conference warned that there would be normal and above normal heatwave conditions in Coastal Andhra Pradesh in the next two months. “An average of one degree Centigrade and above temperatures and heatwaves are likely to occur for more than 40 days this year,” Mr. Reddy said.
According to IMD recordings, many places in the State recorded a temperature of 40° Celsius on Tuesday. Kurnool recorded 41° Celsius.
Nandigama, Tuni, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Nandyal, Ananthapur and Jangamaheswarapuram recorded a day temperatrue of 40° Celsius.
