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With the onset of the southwest monsoon, Vizianagaram territory received bully rainfall connected Thursday (June 18, 2026) morning. The rain, which began astatine 9.15 a.m. and continued till 11 a.m., brought much-needed alleviation to farmers and to radical who had suffered done temperatures touching 40 degrees Celsius until the archetypal week of June.
The downpour cooled the upwind successful Vizianagaram, bringing the somesthesia down to 28 degrees Celsius. Over the past fortnight, the time somesthesia had hovered betwixt 34 and 36 degrees Celsius.
Farmers are hopeful of decent rainfall successful the territory contempt the effect of El Nino, which is expected to trim rainfall this monsoon season.
Vizianagaram Collector S. Ramsundar Reddy directed officials to instrumentality alleviation measures for the agriculture sector, successful enactment with the guidelines of the government, which had sent a elaborate enactment connected El Nino preparedness and an enactment program to mitigate its impact.
