Heavy rains batter Telangana districts; Nalgonda records over 100 mm

Telangana witnessed widespread heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours, with districts like Nalgonda and Jangaon recording up to 12.5 cm. The IMD-Hyderabad and private forecasters have issued warnings for continued heavy to extremely heavy rainfall through Friday and Saturday.

Hyderabad: Heavy downpour lashed all districts of Telangana over the last 24 hours, even as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)-Hyderabad and private weather trackers have issued a warning for very heavy and extremely heavy rainfall for Friday and Saturday.

Between Thursday night and the early hours of Friday, most regions across Nalgonda, Yadadri Bhongir, Jangaon, Hanamkonda, Mulugu, Karimnagar, Sangareddy, Mahabubnagar, Medak, and Vikarabad districts recorded heavy rainfall, ranging from 80 mm to a high of 125 mm (12.5 cm).

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On Friday morning, independent weather tracker from Hyderabad, T Balaji in his forecast indicated that almost all districts of Telangana will receive moderate to heavy rain throughout the day.

“Moderate to heavy rains ahead in Rangareddy, Vikarabad, Narayanpet, Mahabubnagar, Wanaparthy, Nagarkurnool, Jogulamba Gadwal, Yadadri Bhongir, Warangal, Hanmakonda, Jayashankar Bhupalapally, and Mulugu.”

The maximum rainfall that was recorded by the weather TSDPS weather stations in districts, between Thursday night and Friday morning was as follows: Tirumalagiri Sagar, Nalgonda (125 mm/12.5 cm), Zaffergadh, Jangaon (110.3 mm/11.03 cm), Pulicherla, Nalgonda (102.8 mm/10.28 mm), Medram, Mulugu (101.3 mm/10.1 cm), Kulkacharla, Vikarabad (97.5 mm), Eturunagaram, Mulugu (92.3 mm), Shankarpalli, Rangareddy (91.5 mm), Haliya, Nalgonda (90.3 mm), Kagazmaddur, Nalgonda (89.5 mm).