Low pressure likely to intensify into depression, red alert sounded for 6 AP districts

The Meteorological Department on Wednesday said the well-marked low-pressure area over southwest Bay of Bengal off North Sri Lanka coast moved northwestwards and is likely to intensify into a depression on October 22.

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The Met Department also issued red alert to Prakasam, Nellore, Kadapa, Annamayya, Tirupati and Chittoor districts and orange alert to Kurnool, Nandyal, Anantapur and Sri Satyasai districts. A red alert indicates 'heavy to extremely heavy' rainfall of over 20 cm in 24 hours. An orange alert denotes 'very heavy' rainfall of 11 to 20 cm.

Under the influence of the well-marked low pressure area, the Met Department observed, extremely heavy rainfall is likely over isolated places in Nellore, Prakasam, Tirupati, Annamayya, Chittoor and Kadapa districts.