Live
- Gururgram: MCG imposes Rs 30.10 lakh fine against 705 people for violating GRAP norms
- PM Modi brought honour to Constitution: Karnataka BJP
- Did Cong sink MVA in Maharashtra? Data crunching throws up interesting details
- RCB's IPL 2025 Squad: Star Players, New Additions, and Exciting Leadership Change
- Sensex settles flat at 80,004, auto shares slide
- North Korea cuts power lines installed by South Korea
- Blood-like liquid on roads in Hyderabad’s Jeedimetla sparks panic
- Detrimental to interests of people: Priyanka Chaturvedi on delay in naming Maha CM
- Ecclestone, Sciver-Brunt gain big in ICC Women's T20I Player Rankings
- 'Scam of Rs 46,300 crore in BBMP', K'taka BJP leader files complaint with ED
Monsoon withdrawal leaves AP sizzling
The summer in the current year is gone. But the sizzling temperatures have come to stay in the State. There are no signs of let up in the day temperatures even as the state is fast approaching towards summer. Oppressive heat conditions made life miserable for the denizens across the state.
Vijayawada/Visakhapatnam: The summer in the current year is gone. But the sizzling temperatures have come to stay in the State. There are no signs of let up in the day temperatures even as the state is fast approaching towards summer. Oppressive heat conditions made life miserable for the denizens across the state.
Vijayawada is literally blazing, living up to its sobriquet as ‘Blazewada’ with the temperatures hovering around 40 degrees C. Weather is unusually sultry in Visakhapatnam with relatively low temperatures. Weathermen attribute the phenomenon to the southwest monsoons playing truant.
“The monsoons have taken a break and small scale and isolated thunder showers are dominating in the coastal region, resulting in rise of temperatures,’’ said Prof OSRU Bhanu Kumar, former head of the department of Meteorology and Oceanography. Open skies and isolated clouds are also heating up the environment,” he added.
The forecasts suggest bright prospects of good rain during the last week of September and in October some low-pressure systems are expected over the Bay of Bengal. There are indications enough to suggest signs of a low pressure building up in the west central Bay of Bengal in another week, Bhanu Kumar said. Till then there appear no signs of respite for the heat conditions, forcing the look up to the skies for showers.
Environmentalists are viewing Vijayawada as an urban hotspot as greenery is fast giving way to rapid urbanisation and road expansion projects. Hundreds of trees were felled to make way for the widening of the Machilipatnam-Vijayawada national highway.
Besides, several high-rise trees with a huge canopy along the Kolkata-Chennai national highway in the heart of the city disappeared ever since the flyover project commenced at the Benz Circle from the skew bridge up to the Ramesh Hospitals. Widening of internal roads in the city witnessed chopping of trees during the Krishna Pushkarams last year.
The city is expected to save itself from the rising temperatures if the green hills project proposed by the forest department becomes a reality.
A report prepared by the Forest Department proposed to improve green cover in the hillocks within the city by removing encroachments at the hilltops. The project envisages airdropping of seeds of forest plants as part of improvement of greenery in the hills. But it is failing to take off for want of support from the political parties opposed to removal of encroachments. Environmentalists reasoned that the temperatures are bound to shoot up in the city.
By Team Hans
