Heavy rain likely on Vijaya Dasami

Vikarabad: The Met department warned of hunderstorm/lightning likely to occur at isolated places across Telangana on October 7. It also warned of heavy rain likely to occur at isolated places in the State on October 8 and 9.

The forecast said light to moderate rain or thundershowers very likely to occur at a few places across Telangana from October 7 to 10. No large change during the period October 11-13 is the weather outlook.

Meanwhile, the Southwest Monsoon turned weak over Telangana during the last 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Sunday. Rain occurred at isolated places in districts of Vikarabad, Ranga Reddy, Medak, Siddipet and Sangareddy.

While there was 3 cm of rain in Bomraspeta (Vikarabad district), there was 2 cm rain each in Rajendranagar (RR), Tupran (Medak), Ibrahimpatnam (RR), Jagadevpur (Siddipet), Peddemul (Vikarabad) and Sangareddy. One cm rain each occurred in Yacharam, Manchal and Golkonda.