April 2016 Second Fortnight Weather in AP and other major events and happenings

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Volume 2016, Issue No .4a,  Dated: 17 to 30 April 2016, Time: 02:11:25 AM

      April 2016 Second Fortnight Weather in AP and other major events and  happenings in India.
    

    by

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,

(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)

Res: 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,

                                                Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.

kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com

   lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

               

                        A Druk Air flight from Paro to Bangkok had a close shave as it was caught in a hailstorm just before the plane was about to land at the Guwahati's Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi airport this afternoon. A 7.8 R earthquake struck Ecuador on Pacific Coast at 23:58 GMT on Saturday 16 April 2016, about 170 km north-west of Quito, lasted about a minute. Felt across Ecuador, Northern Peru and Southern Colombia. An unexplained carpet of foamy bubbles filled streets in the centre of the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka in the early hours of Saturday morning, shortly after tremors from a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook the town. People selling away their cattle to butchers for throwaway prices, unable to provide fodder or water, and property with no intention of returning home in Karnataka state.  Life miserable for people in Odisha state. Kerala also faces one of its harshest summer. Saturday, 16 April 2016, market came down like a house of cards. 180 km away south of epicentre at least two people were killed with collapse of town market. The earthquake lasted two minutes, A 25 million year old fossil of a five foot tall and three foot wide discovered in Jagjitnagar near Kasauli. On Tuesday, 26 April, Indian meteorological department announced that monsoon in 2016 was likely to be ‘above normal’, which may increase the water levels. The western and southern regions are the most affected. The live storage level in 27 reservoirs of the western region, which includes Maharashtra and Gujarat, is a mere 18 per cent, compared to 36 per cent last year. Rajasthan 19 Zillahs are under famine and no water condition. Jaipur news reports that lakhs of people have no water to drink. Tankers don’t reach the Kalaburgi, Gulbarga town, and people walk 15 km from a well, for daily requirement of 10 vessels of water per family.  North Karnataka all rivers dried up, lakes became dry, Bores and wells don’t yield water. At Kothapalli village of Thondangi Mandal in E Godavari district the AP archaeology department have unearthed a Dharmachakra with 32 spokes and a number of Bhuddhist relics including rock inscription in Brahmi Script. Indian Flag depicts 24 spokes. Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 April 2016, senior officials said these findings date back to pre-Satvahana to Satvahana period. Probably carved in second Century CE and the fourth Century CE. The Srikakulam district had wonderful rain on 22 April. In Benzincy 3 cm, and Golconda 1 cm rain fall was recorded on Monday, April 18, 2016. Being a person staying in Visakhapatnam, I am to state that the temperature has enhanced in the days on 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 of April with sweltering heat and hot winds during the day time from 8:30 AM to almost 6:00 PM.  April 22, I have never seen this kind of heat in Mandya district. It is an irrigated area, but this kind of terrible drought and heat. Old people cannot sit inside their homes. Children are also forced to come outside.  We can't even sleep at night.

                                     

TWO SIGNIFICANT PHOTOS

Fig.1 Temperatures in South India 1

Fig.2 The India Continent and the lines 

of Summer 2016 Severity.

JAPAN FOAMS

              An unexplained carpet of foamy bubbles filled streets in the centre of the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka in the early hours of Saturday morning, shortly after tremors from a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook the town. Twitter users posted pictures of the mysterious foam, with one calling it “disgusting”. “I saw it just after the earthquake,” said Kazuki Nabeta, who lives in the busy central district of Tenjin, where the bubbles were found. Some have speculated that the earthquake may have caused an underground pipe to burst

Chandigarh

            The city had its hottest day in the previous five years with mercury soaring to 39.5°C. The previous instance of highest temperature was recorded on April 30, 2011, at 39.5 degrees. The maximum temperature recorded in the city on Saturday was 39.5 °C, and it was 5 °C above normal. The day’s temperature was nearly 2°C more in comparison to Friday when the temperature was 37.8°C. The minimum temperature was 22°C, and it was three degree above normal. Last year, the maximum temperature recorded in April was 37.8°C and on April 30, 2014

BHUTAN_BANGKOK FLIGHT: HAILSTORM

            A Druk Air flight from Paro to Bangkok had a close shave as it was caught in a hailstorm just before the plane was about to land at the Guwahati's Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi airport this afternoon. Airport sources said the Druk Air flight KB 140, with 90 passengers on board, landed safely around 3:30 pm. But passengers lived through some tense moments as the plane passed through turbulent weather.

Quake Hits ECUADOR

           A 7.8 R earthquake struck Ecuador on Pacific Coast at 23:58 GMT on Saturday 16 April 2016, about 170 km north-west of Quito, lasted about a minute. Felt across Ecuador, Northern Peru and Southern Colombia. Dead more than 233 and 600 injured. Pacific port city of Guayaquil, housing more than two million people, a bridge collapsed crushing a car underneath, houses reduced to rubble. Damage both at the epicentre and points far away as Guayaquil. Quake’s 7.8R shaking at underground source was 6 times stronger than in 7.0 R earthquake in Japan. About 55 aftershocks were reported. It was 27 km from the town of Muisne. Ecuador lies near a shifting boundary between tectonic plates. Suffered quakes of 7.0 R or higher since 1900 and on March 1987 killed about 1,000 people.

SCARY SIGNS OF SUMMER SORES

                        In some places, it is called drought, in some parts a water crisis, and in some it is said a heat wave. Particularly Karnataka, all of Telangana, and several districts of Andhra Pradesh, and especially Odisha are in the grip of a severe fright of scary summer drought. Reports of mass migration from Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Bidar, Raichur, Vijayapura and Bagalkot, in Karnataka State temperatures ragging around 44 C, Kurnool, Kadapa, Chittoor, and Anatpuram in AP, Mahbugnagar, and Nalgonda in Telangana is taking place. People selling away their cattle to butchers for throwaway prices, unable to provide fodder or water, and property with no intention of returning home in Karnataka state.  Life miserable for people in Odisha state. Kerala also faces one of its harshest summer.

Fig.3 Kurnool District unusual rain.

Guntur High and Dry 

   City is facing water crisis as water levels in Prakasam barrage, that supplies to Guntur channel plummeted to 6.1 feet by Sunday morning. If no discharge from Nagarjuna Sagar by April end acute water shortage would result.

Flood, then Earthquake: Ecuador Town: double disaster

             The week began in flood waters up to their chest ended on Saturday evening with the earthquake. On Monday 11 April, water flooded the town, all houses were submerged. The water was up to the chest of the people in the main avenue. Then on Saturday, 16 April 2016, market came down like a house of cards. 180 km away south of epicentre at least two people were killed with collapse of town market. The earthquake lasted two minutes, people trapped in dark, slowly crawled to door, that was blocked, and finally a family squeezed out with some scratches.

20 million year old fossilised tree

Kumarhatti: Himahala  Pradesh. 

       Numerous flora and fauna fossils have been discovered in Kasauli, Barog, Kumarhatti, Dharampur and Subathu areas located in Shivaliks, in Solan district. They date back to paleo-flooding related to global warming and glacial melt resulting in floods. The buried trees led to petrification a process in which dissolved minerals replace organic matter. The saved fossil tree, is 12 feet tall (originally about 100 feet) and one metre wide, about to be destroyed during, a construction of a four lane road, 50 km from Chandigarh, a second one in the region, was also saved from destruction. A 25 million year old fossil of a five foot tall and three foot wide discovered in Jagjitnagar near Kasauli. 

April 15, 2016 12:35 IST: Water levels in 91 major reservoirs low: Live storage

Fig.4 Water in major reservoirs  as on April 15, 2016.

                      Live storage capacity of these reservoirs is 157.799 BCM (Billion Cubic Meters), which is 62 per cent of the live storage capacity that is estimated to have been created in India. ‘Live storage’ is the portion of the reservoir that can be utilised for flood control, power production, navigation and downstream releases. As per the latest report released on April 13, 2016, live storage available in these reservoirs is 35.839 BCM, which is 23 per cent of the total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The report states that current storage is 67 per cent of the storage of corresponding period of last year and 77 per cent of storage of average of last ten years. Experts attribute the depleting water levels in reservoirs to two years of poor rainfall in the country. On Tuesday, Indian meteorological department announced that monsoon in 2016 was likely to be ‘above normal’, which may increase the water levels. The western and southern regions are the most affected. The live storage level in 27 reservoirs of the western region, which includes Maharashtra and Gujarat, is a mere 18 per cent, compared to 36 per cent last year.

tmc ft April  16, 2016	Capacity	2016	2015
Jurala	11.94	2.86	6.34
Srisailam	215.81	23.86	32
Nagarjuna Sagar	312.05	126.8	141.38
Pulichintala	46.77	0.04	0.98
Sngur	29.91	0.55	7
Nizam Sagar	17.8	0	1.05
Sri ram Sagar	90.31	4.97	13.17
Lower Manair	24.07	2.73	4.82

Southern Region Worst Hit

    In the southern region, the situation is even worse, with water levels at 15 per cent of the total live storage capacity in 31 reservoirs of this region. In fact, four reservoirs – three in Maharashtra and one in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (combined project in both States) – are left with no water at the moment.  The central and eastern regions have storage levels greater than 30 per cent, better than the national average. Overall, 74 of the total 91 reservoirs have storage levels lower than the average of last ten years. Looking at States, apart from West Bengal, Tripura and Madhya Pradesh, all other 16 States housing these reservoirs have below normal storage levels.

MAJOR RESERVOIRS IN INDIA

                  91 major reservoirs in India, dipped from 37.92 Billion Cubic Metres on April 7 to 35.83 BCM on April 13. Out of these 37 are hydro-power facilities, with installed capacity of only 60MW. Two consecutive drought years have dwindled water levels.

TWO WEEKS HEAT WAVE IN AP.

               Normal life hit as AP suffers a second successive Heat attack. It seems 240 people had died of heat stroke in the last two weeks alone. Rentachintala, Gannavaram, Bapatla,  Ongole, Anantapur, Kurnool, and Nellore have temperatures in excess of  42-44 C, for the last 4-5 days. Heat waves have accounted for more deaths than any other natural calamity. Heat wave continues to hit Telangana and Odisha which are worst hit. Sonepur in Odisha touched 46 C. As many as 16 towns in Odisha state recorded above 40 C. Adilabad recorded 44 C. Sensors installed at 885 points across the state in Andhra record the temperatures.

Houston floods: Disaster zone declared after 'historic' rainfall

              Flash flooding and more rain is possible in Houston, a day after record rainfall killed five people. Some rain fell in the city about 17.6 in (44.7 cm) on Monday, 18 April 2016 alone, levels that national officials said were "historic". Among the worst-hit areas is Greenspoint, a poor, mainly Hispanic district of more than 112,000 people to the north of the city centre. However, this flood is the largest to strike the city since Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, which led to 23 deaths across the state, the City of Houston Twitter account said.

Kurnool District RAIN ON SUNDAY NIGHT

                             Rs.50 lakhs construction of Hanuman Statue donated by farmers to be the biggest in Rayalseema collapsed on Sunday 17 April, night being built on a 12 foot pedestal atop 14 foot foundation. A farmer 28 years old killed by a lightning stroke when he rushed to the heap of groundnuts crop, with the intention of covering it up. The two brothers ran towards the field to cover the crop and were hit by the thunderbolt. One brother fell unconscious.

RAIN FALL, WATER DROUGHT, SUGAR CRUSH AND HEAT INDEX

        Kerala 41 mm against normal of 71m. India this year rainfall 43.6mm Normal 45.4 mm. Heat index Kozhikode 50, Kannur 46, Thiruvanathapuram 42, and Kochi 42. Drought hits production of Sugar in the country decreased by 8% to 24.34 million tonnes till April 15. Two-thirds of the sugar million tons in Maharashtra and Karnataka downed shutters due to drought. Only 117 mills were carrying crushing operation against 245 mills depicting the precarious condition. Almost 189 sugar mills had closed of which 31 were in UP, 91 in Maharashtra, 35 in Karnataka 10 in Bihar and the rest in states such as Gujarat, AP, Telangana and Uttarakhand. 209 km Bharathapuzha River in Kerala turns completely dry.

         Rajasthan 19 Zillahas are under famine and no water condition. Jaipur news reports that lakhs of people have no water to drink. Water supply by railway to Bilwara area and by Tankers for remaining villages. About 17 thousand villages facing water shortage. Rs. 50 lakhs for every zillaha money has been earmarked.

                            Fig.5. The plight of weaker sections  to get water from

                                       miles long walk in the state of Rajastan.

           In Karnataka during 1971 people starved for food, but now facing acute drinking water shortage. Tankers don’t reach the Kalaburgi, Gulbarga town, and people walk 15 km from a well, for daily requirement of 10 vessels of water per family.  North Karnataka all rivers dried up, lakes became dry, Bores and wells don’t yield water. Many villages, earlier in Hyderabad state, becoming empty of human population due to lack of water. Belgam, Darwad, Yadagiri, Bidar, Raychur, Kopal, and Ballery districts facing acute water shortage.

        In Benzincy 3 cm, and Golconda 1 cm rain fall was recorded on Monday, 18 April., 2016.

Fig.6 The January to March 2016 rainfall scaled.

     

DAL BECAME EXPENSIVE IN AP News 19 April.

          Minnapappu kilo Rs.200, Kandipappu Rs.160, Pesarapappu Rs.120 and Sengapappu Rs. 90 increased by 30% excess.

 FASTEST GROWING AVIATION

            India has the fastest growing economy, and it also has the fastest growing aviation sector in the world, according to IATA.  CNN 16 April 2016.

ECUADOR

                         Ecuador again Earth tremors of 6.1 R.

ANDAMAN ISLANDS

            Andaman Islands on Wednesday early morning slight Earth tremor occurred of intensity 5.1 R. No loss of life or damages reported.

JAPAN

           The southern Kyushu region of Japan was hit by two earthquakes on April 14 and 16, 2016. The second quake measured 7.3 on the Richter scale and was followed by several massive landslides. The combined death toll has reached 41, according to Kumamoto Prefecture's disaster management office. More than 2,000 people have reportedly been injured and 11 people are still missing, feared to be buried under shattered buildings or torrents of mud. Rescue operations are underway. Around 180,000 people are living in temporary shelters and more than 62,000 homes still remain without basic amenities like electricity and water. (Pictured): Policemen search for survivors on April 17 at a landslide site after earthquakes in Minami-Aso, Kumamoto prefecture.

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ANDHRA PRADESH

          While travelling by train Dr Lalitha saw rain at Rajahmundry and newspaper report says that the hailstorm occurred in East Godavari Zillah Y Ramvaram on the 21 April 2016. Ramagundem 46 C, Nizambad 45 C, Anatapur 44 C, Kurnool 43.4 C, Hyderabad and Tirupathi 42 C, Nellore 41.4C, Vijayawada 40 C, but opencast Singereni fields,  CHP, Underground wells, Godavari neighbourhood, Coal Dump, Sand dump yards would register 1 to 3 degrees excess heat.

Fig.7   East Godavari Jillah Ramvaram 

hail stones rain on 21-04-2016.

Ancient Dharma Chakra Carved in Stone
unearthed in AP          

                                     

    Fig.8    Dharma Chakra of 32 spokes Wheels while 

      India flags has only 24 spokes 

        At Kothapalli village of Thondangi Mandal in E Godavari district the AP archaeology department have unearthed a Dharmachakra with 32 spokes and a number of Bhuddhist relics including rock inscription in Brahmi Script. Indian Flag depicts 24 spokes. Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 April 2016, senior officials said these findings date back to pre-Satvahana to Satvahana period. Probably carved in second Century CE and the fourth Century CE. This is the third Dharmachakra with 32 spokes, one at Kanaganahalli-Sannati in Karnataka and another terracotta Dharmachakra excavated at Lumbint in Nepal in the vicinity of Maya Devi Temple. Ashoka’s Lion Capital apparently had 32 spokes but four Dharmachakras below the Lion Capitol contained 24 spokes. The 32 signifies qualities of a Maha Purusha. Brahmi script found at Kothapalli site will be referred to experts for decipherment. 

22 and 23 April 2016
                                  The Srikakulum  district had wonderful rain on 22 April and the rainy clouds have moved over the Visakhapatnam sky towards the sea coast, on the 22 April evening with the sky overcast with clouds but no rain at all in   Visakhapatnam.

Fig. 9   Hail stones rain in Srikakulam District on the

 22 April with clouds moved over to Visakhapatnam but no rain there.

WATER CRISIS IN KARNATAKA STATE

                                  Electricity generation dipped to about 20,640 units a day in Karnataka state. Sir K. Sheshadri Iyer first hydro electric power station in Asia with all its 10 power production units were recently shut down. 

DROUGHT IN MAHARASHTRA STATE

                   Rajendra Singh asserted that sugar factories in Marathwada a rain-shadow region which has about 52 sugar factories, including 25 private ones, mostly held by politicians, were the cause of drought. Whether region is fit for sugar production has become a bone of contention now. Soft drinks for drought relief planned by cricketer Sachin in Marathwada. Actor Akshay Kumar donated Rs. 50 lakh to Government Jalyukt Shivar Scheme. to support 5000 villages!

GUJARAT RESERVOIRS ONLY 21.74%WATER

            Gujarat government said all 203 small, medium and large dams, including the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada River are now having only 21.74% of their actual storage capacity. Till now state government declared 994 villages of the parched Sauraatshtra and Kutch regions are partially scarcity-hit. As many as 317 villages in 14 districts had been given water through tankers at present. Another 468 villages would be given tanker supply of water. 

ANDHRA, TELENGANA AND KARNATAKA

                        Saturday recorded high temperatures of 48 C in Titiagarh, 45.4 C in Guntur District, Tirupati 44.9 C and Hyderabad43 C. Heat wave with temperature hovering around 3-40 C, even in open Scorching Sun took the lives of 14 daily wage labourers on a single day in Chennai on the 23 April. Thiruvanmiyur railway station opposite IT Park showed a temperature of 41.1 C a difference of 7 degrees 0n 23 April. A T Nagar it was 43.1 C, a clear two degrees higher in the concrete jungle .Under a Banayan tree 300 metres away temperature was 34 C while rest of the city was at 40 C. Jangameswarpuram 45.4 C, Tirupati 44.9 C, Kavali 44.3 C, Nellore 44.3 C, Nandigamma 44.8 C, Kurnool 43.6 C, Anantapur 43.5 C, Vijayawada 43.5 C, Visakhapatnam 32.4 C were recorded. Hot winds blowing across AP Sun stroke deaths recorded as 137 till Saturday 23 April, in total 29 deaths reported on Saturday, 10 from Ananthpur, Chittoor 5, four each from Nellore, Guntur and Prakasam districts. Morning itself on Saturday Mercury kept climbing.

               

                    Two cops at Eluru were victims of Sun stroke while on duty on both women an SI and a constable. While discharging duties of CM tour.

                       Day after thunderstorm on Friday night with power supply disturbed several place, and on Saturday morning the blazing hot Sun showed 44.9 C the highest temperature to-date. Many parts of the city felt the lashing downpour on Friday 22 April night, with intense gales that wreaked havoc by uprooting the trees and disrupting power supply.  About 16 electric poles were wrecked. Thunder storm started at 4 PM continued for an hour with about 25 trees fell down uprooted. Residents went through a sleepless night on Friday.

                   
                   Thunder showers on Friday, in Bangalore and Karnataka not enough to bring relief from Heat wave. Concrete jungle responsible for the Heat wave in Bangalore. Odisha, Bhubaneswar mercury levels continue to soar, with high temperatures recorded at Rajmahal overbridge and Heads of Departments building on Friday.

                         Telangana claimed 12 deaths in Nalgonda district, with Adilabad and Karimnagar districts claiming each one death due to Summer Heat, on a single day on Saturday. Temperature was touching 44.8 C in the two districts of Nalgonda. Daily wage workers and farm labour work under extreme heat, and masons and rickshaw drivers were among the victims.  [Hyderabad news].Unofficial accounts give 109 deaths till date. Official figure is just 19 a week back. State has already experienced more than 20 heat wave days in this season.

                       

Fig.10 The HEATSTROKE SYMPTOMS Dt. 24 April 2016

The Sunday 24 April the power off and on considerable number of times

causing sweating and unbearable heat in Visakhapatnam.

        

                I have suffered continues headaches whenever the electric supply was off and I felt it for the first time of an intense heat in the body and sweating. For several times the power was off in Visakhapatnam being a Sunday 24 April most of the people were at home confined by the Heat. Luckilynonausea or sensations of vomiting. Heart rate was luckily normal. 24 April Visakhapatnam weather became very hot following Rayalaseema.

25 April 2016

           Assam state blessed with heavy rains, 45,000 people affected by first wave of floods across four districts, so far about 1018 hectares of crop area has been inundated. Burhidihung and Desang Nagiamuraga Rivers were flowing above danger mark in Sivasagar. People in Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Sivasagar and Charaideo districts were suffering. 

                Sunstroke deaths 169 till Saturday with severe heat in coastal AP. Tirupati 45.7 C, Jangameswarapuram 45.6 C, Nellore 44.6 C, Kurnool 44.1 C, Nandigamma 43.8 C, Anatapur 43.2 C, Visakhapatnam 32 C, Vijayawada 42.6 C and Kavali 42.4 C temperatures were recorded on Sunday 24 April. Guntur recorded 17 sunstroke deaths on Sunday, with about 32 in the entire state. After Ryalseema temperatures started raising in Coastal districts also from Sunday 24 April.

POWER CUT DISRUPTION OF TRAINS

                 Three districts have faced 4-hr power cut with the failure o 400 KV sub-station of APTransco on April 26 from 3:55 PM.Also the repair of CVT 900 MW power supply interrupted in Visakhapatnam, Viziangaram and Srikakulam districts. As many as 32 lakh consumers suffered a lot.  Five passenger and eight goods trains halted at various places in the three districts. By 7:45 AM Monday the power restored. 

DROUGHT

                     April 22, 2016 01:00: In this time of intense summer, Kheelghatta is a village like thousands others across the country dealing with drought. In the state alone, 137 taluks or blocks have been declared drought hit. We have not seen this kind of heat for 15 years. It is very difficult for pregnant women (to cope)," said Satish, a farmer. Umesh, who works with a farmer's union, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, comments, "I have never seen this kind of heat in Mandya district. It is an irrigated area, but this kind of terrible drought and heat. Old people cannot sit inside their homes. Children are also forced to come outside.  We can't even sleep at night.

Monday April 25, 2016, Bengaluru

                   An unrelenting heatwave has killed more than 150 people, most of them in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, but even the Garden City of Bengaluru is now sweltering.

LIFE IN SPACE

               25 April 2016: This suggests that the fundamental molecules of life might be formed in outer space, and then delivered to planets like Earth by icy comets and meteorites. The finding is actually not surprising. We have known for decades that other building blocks of life can be formed from chemical reactions like this, before being incorporated into comets, asteroids and planets. However, there is a more intriguing possibility. Life itself might not have needed a warm and comfortable planet bathed in sunlight to get going. If the raw ingredients were already out there in interplanetary limbo, might life have started there too?

25 April 2016 Weather in Andhra

            Kurnool 45.1 C, Anantapur 44.5 C. Jangameswarpuram 44.4 C, Kadaph 43.2 C, Tirupati 42.8 C, Kavali 42.3 C, Nandigamma 41.8 C, Nellore 41.4 C and Visakhapatnam 32 C respectively the temperatures on Monday 25 April 2015. Surprisingly, the day temperatures reported in both the News Papers Andhrjyothi and The Indian Express differ much by two to three degrees. Heat wave deaths increased by 24 taking overall toll of mishaps to 183. About 12 people perished in Guntur, six in Chittoor, two each in Kurnool and Kadapa, one each in Nellore and West Godavari districts.
             
         It is unfortunate that Andhra Pradesh Government has no control over the News Paper reports of Heat Wave in AP. A coordinated central agency to monitor and report the data for the benefit of the common man. News papers cannot be allowed to give widely varying reports of the Heat wave conditions in AP and Telangana.

           Visakhapatnam Weather Temperature reported by Andhrajyothi news paper as 37 C, unlike the The Indian Express News Paper which reports only 32 C. Being a person staying in Visakhapatnam, I am to state that the temperature has enhanced in the days on 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 of April with sweltering heat and hot winds during the day time from 8:30 AM to almost  6:00 PM.
                     

          Joharapuramturns into a ghost village, with the half population vacated the village, and all the 16 Century temples kept totally locked up ever since summer has set in. Three consecutive droughts responsible for the human suffering. Sivalayam temple 10 km away gives water free, but gets filled only in about 15 days. Many villagers cannot afford to pay Rs.1600/- per a single water tank. Water is bought at Rs.10/- a pot. It is bore water having a red tint, and tastes salty. Nellore also facing high humidity and suffocation with dearth of drinking water. For last ten days temperature was around 44 C. Sun strokes deaths are from Atmakur, Udayagiri, Vinjamuru, Dthaluru, Seetharamapuram, Varikuntapadu, Rapur and Podalakuru dry land areas.  

         Steel city in Visakhapatnam due to water shortage and, after 15 May it may be closed down. Power supply schedule may hit water supply if no early rain in Visakhapatnam. Tripping of a 220 KV voltage transformer, CVT, at Kalpakam sub-station led to water supply shortage on Sunday and Monday, April in Visakhapatnam. 

TEMPERATURE IN AP FELL DOWN BY ONE DGREE.

            The Vizianagaram Ziilah, Bobbilli and Pachipenta Mandal regions on Thursday 28 April 2016 experienced sudden rain for about two hours, and Bobbilli had gales with the rain but Pachipenta hadd hailstorm with a tremendous force.

             Paderu inVisakhapatnam agency area also had a hailstones rain, in the afternoon, with the city cooled down, coffee gardens  would benefit much, and animals get water to drink.For about an half an hour the hailstorm continued. Morning there was there was intense heat wave and Sun blazed till the afternoon.  

Fig. 11 The Paderu near Visakhapatnam, the hail storm fall on  28 April 2016.

NAIROBI FRIDAY 29 April

                                At least four people lost their lives on Friday 29 April, evening after a perimeter wall collapsed at 5 PM along Lenana Road, Nairobi due to heavy rains. The heavy rains came with massive losses with rooftops of businesses in places like East-lands being blown away and trees falling on roads and electric poles causing blackouts.

Fig.12  Agency areas in grip of water crisis  People in Eastern Ghats, 

tribal women children for drinking water uphill dangerous 

pathway near Araku   Photo 0586. jpg 

                    The filling up a medium sized vessel takes about 15 minutes, then to walk around 10 km uphill on a slippery slope, to deliver water to house hold daily between 6 AM to 1 PM, in Killoguda village, problem of drinking water in Araku. Art handed over to people from their forefathers. Tribal people depend on natural water they don't use bore well water for drinking. They don't boil the natural water and some insects are present that have become part of their life. Bore well water is less and tasteless. Rs. 1.5 crore required for the drinking water facility.

                       Around 330 million people in India are affected by drought, according to the government. Searing heat continues to grip much of India. Temperatures in many parts of the country are well above average, with some places reporting temperatures more than 5C higher than would be expected at this time of the year. Globally heat waves are one of the largest causes of weather-related deaths.The situation is particularly hazardous if the temperatures do not drop during the night, because this would normally be when the body would recover from the heat. With no end to the heat wave in sight, the hot weather continues to take its toll on the residents of India. Nainital, the City of Lakes, has been hit by a water crisis for the first time. There has been a drastic dip in water level at Naini Lake which is town's biggest draw for tourists.The water level in 91 major reservoirs across the country has dipped to 22 per cent of their total capacity, government said on Friday.

30 April 2016.        

                 Jangameswarpuram 44.4 C, Anantapur 43.8 C, Kurnool 43.5 C, Nandigama 42.4 C, Nellore 41.6 C, Vijawada 41.6 C, Kadapa 43 C, Guntur 42 C, Chittoor 41.4 C and Visakhapatnam 37.4 C, with night temperatures ranging from 21 C to 30 C. Cumulonimbus clouds sparingly forming over Andhra and Telangana and till Friday morning Bobbile, Salur had 2 cm rain, Morthada registered 1 cm rain. Rayalaseema experiencing dry weather. Sky is normal but the hilly regions how fast they become hot so fast.

HINDU TRADITION IN NEPAL

                                            

                         Nepali girls marry Hindu God Vishnu, with ceremony during which they hold the bel fruit, known as wood fruit, in one palm and touch a statue of the God Vishnu, with the other symbolically giving their hand in marriage to Vishnu a practice in Newar community of Neal. The two-day ceremony held several times in durbar Royal Square.  After the ritual the girl is back to school,

ISS MARS DRILL

          ISS astronaut to control machines on Earth as a practice for Mars undertakings.

NASA: DARK ENERGY

                  NASA plans Chandra Telescope and other optical telescopes as a powerful tool to a new method of study for investigating DARK ENERGY from cluster data.

RIVER KATHA IN UTTAR PRADESH

                 Ponds go bone-dry in Bundelkhand villages, in Uttar Pradesh, out of 142 hand pumps36 are damaged, not a single government tube well, canal or pipeline is close to village. It faces drought every 16 years but ancestors have devised mechanisms to beat drought through rain-water harvesting and preservation of ponds. Villagers from Shamli donate their labour to retrieve water, by trying to turn a barren riverbed into a lake. River Katha once one of 150-km long dead now, used to flow in 1830, between Saharanpur and Rampur but need of the hour is to revive to create 1 km lake.

TELANGANA MIGRATION TO MUMBAI

            Telangana people migrating to Mumbai due to water shortage from Kulkacharla Mandal in a 14-hour journey. Even at a depth of 300 meters there was no water struck for the dug wells.

GODAVARI DRY SAMVASTSAR

             Dry Godavari now a riverbed of illegally dug bore wells. 

THE RED AND BLUE RINGS ROUND SUN ON 30 APRIL 2016

                A Rare Red and Blue Ring around Sun were observed between 12.10 PM to 12:40 PM known as ’22 degree circular halo sighted in Kolkata. Sun’s rays get deflected through hexagonal ice crystals present in cirrus clouds. These clouds when water vapour freezes into ice crystals at altitudes five to ten km above the Earth’s surface. This observed three years ago in 2013 in the suburbs of the city, the phenomenon takes place before an impending storm.

AN EARTHQUAKE IN VANUATU

              30 April 2016: A 6.0 R Earthquake hits off Vanuatu struck at a depth of 4.8 km some 85 km south of port city Luganville. Vanuatu is part of Ring of Fire this month a powerful 7.0 R quake on Friday  struck which hit port Vila about 209 km away. 

VISAKHAPATNAM
              Today Visakhapatnam had a pleasant weather, with no much of Sun, and felt relaxed after the sweltering heat wave that troubled people. Usually I was taking a quick bath nearly after every two hours or so, but today 30 April 2016, hardly I took cold water bath only a couple of times.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

            The author is indebted to Late Prof K R Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for his advice, guidance and direction, in the author’s work. His observation of changing scenario of Visakhapatnam beach coast and the National happenings were a foresight for the author's observations. Second fortnight of April month 2016, totally devastated India with lack of even drinking water, in the Southern States, states of Rajasthan, and Gujarat  with excessive heat beyond 40 C temperature.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

NEW RESEARCH FIND ON KLN-HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAM: A NEW SPECTRAL ACROSS LINE, GREEN GIANTS AND DARK DWARFS:  trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com, 

Volume 2016, Issue No. 4b,  Dated: 17 April  2016, Time: 17:32:42 PM.    by

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