Even as Hyderabad and some other places in Telangana received showers along with thunder storms since last evening bringing some respite to the people harassed by the fortnight long deadly heatwave, the situation was yet to ease in Andhra Pradesh.
The death toll in the heatwave in the two States has broken all the past records as officials said 1774 people have died in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh till Thursday evening.
In a reflection of the serious situation in Andhra Pradesh, 329 people died on a single day on Thursday while 100 deaths were reported from Telangana.
Thunder showers on Thursday evening on the outskirts of Hyderabad brought some cheers to the people. The trend continued on Friday as several areas of the city including Tarnaka, Osmania University, Dilsukhnagar and Mehdipatnam received showers cooling down the scorching summer heat to some extent.
With the sky turning cloudy in Hyderabad from time to time the people heaved a sigh of relief though temperatures were still above normal.
Hyderabad Meteorological Centre said that the heatwave conditions will prevail in Andhra for another 24 hours and temperatures will start falling subsequently. A trough was prevailing from Chhattisgarh and coastal Andhra Pradesh to southern Tamil Nadu. Weather officials said that it can bring isolated rains to many places in Andhra Pradesh over the next 48 hours.
Jangamaheshwarapuram in Andhra was the hottest place with a temperature of 47 degrees Celsius. Temperature at other places ranged from 44 to 40 degrees.
Meanwhile Andhra Pradesh Government has cancelled leave of doctors of Government hospitals in view of the continuing heat wave deaths.