Heavy rain lashes Rayalaseema districts

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Heavy rainfall continued to lash the Rayalaseema portion for the 2nd consecutive time connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025) arsenic a low-pressure country implicit the southwestern Bay of Bengal deepened, bringing incessant rains to the interior districts.

Heavy to precise dense rainfall alert has been issued successful the districts of Sri Sathya Sai, Chittoor, Annamayya, YSR Kadapa, Anantapur, and Nandyal districts until Friday.

The Rayalaseema portion reported waterlogged areas, overflowing tanks and rivulets, and marooned cultivation lands successful respective mandals.

In the Sri Sathya Sai district, dependable rainfall was reported from Puttaparthi, Penukonda, and Hindupur, and Dharmavaram divisions. The agrarian roads turned slushy, and insignificant irrigation tanks started flooding with rainwater from Tuesday night. Farmers successful Chilamathur mandal of Anantapur district, and Gorantla mandal of Sri Sathya Sai territory said that the downpour commenced precocious Tuesday and done the night, inundating immense stretches of groundnut fields.

Control country opened successful Annamayya district

In Annamayya district, dense spells paralyzed mean beingness successful Rayachoti, Rajampet, and Lakkireddypalle areas. Cheyyeru and Bahuda rivers were reported to beryllium successful mild spate, and the runoff flowed crossed the causeways successful the agrarian areas. Field officials from the revenue, panchayat raj, and R&B reported insignificant damages to the horticulture crops, portion bringing respite to farmers from the agelong adust weeks since March. District Collector Nishant Kumar said that a power country had been acceptable up astatine Rayachoti with the fig 08561-293006.

The adjoining YSR Kadapa territory witnessed mean to dense rainfall, bringing betwixt 50 mm and 80 mm of rainfall since Tuesday morning. In Anantapur, scattered rainfall was reported, but determination was dense downpour successful Kalyandurg, Dharmavaram, and Kadiri. Uprooted trees and impermanent powerfulness outages were reported connected the agrarian side.

A dependable ablution continued successful Nandyal district, with knee-deep h2o successful respective panchayats successful the Allagadda and Koilakuntla regions.

In Chittoor, the territory medication is connected alert pursuing dependable inflows into the Neeva stream surrounding the Chittoor municipal corp and the adjoining GD Nellore assembly constituency. The irrigation and gross officials were instructed to show the h2o travel into the Krishnapuram reservoir adjacent Karveti Nagaram.

Downpour was reported successful Nagari, Karveti Nagaram, Chittoor, GD Nellore, SR Puram, and Nindra mandals. The officials said, but for dense rainfall, determination was nary harm to the nationalist oregon backstage spot successful the region. “Police unit are being deployed to forestall visitors from moving towards the Kaigal waterfalls adjacent Palamaner. A peculiar ticker is kept astatine overflowing causeways successful the agrarian areas, peculiarly successful the Gudipala, Karveti Nagaram, and Vedurukuppam areas,” SP Tushar Dudi said, appealing to the nationalist not to determination person to h2o bodies.

The agriculture and gross officials were connected a spree of inspections successful affected villages successful Chittoor, Sathya Sai, and Annamayya districts. Disaster absorption unit were kept connected alert successful presumption of the dense rainfall informing till Friday. The teams were directed to ore connected waterlogging, anemic and overflowing culverts, and tanks susceptible to breaches.

Published - October 22, 2025 03:44 p.m. IST

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