Heavy rains lash Hyderabad in early hours of Wednesday

Hyderabad: An extremely heavy spell of rain, bolstered by flashes of thunder, lightning and gusty winds shook the city out of its summer slumber in the early hours of Wednesday. The rain, which left a trail of chaos in its wake, saw several low-lying areas being inundated, trees being uprooted and blocking traffic and also […]

Hyderabad: An extremely heavy spell of rain, bolstered by flashes of thunder, lightning and gusty winds shook the city out of its summer slumber in the early hours of Wednesday. The rain, which left a trail of chaos in its wake, saw several low-lying areas being inundated, trees being uprooted and blocking traffic and also widespread disruption in power supply. In those few hours that saw several main thoroughfares also being waterlogged, the city received an average rainfall of 63 mm, according to the India Meteorological Department, Hyderabad.

According to the Telangana State Development Planning Society (TSDPS), Marredpally received 74.8 mm of rainfall, followed by Trimulgherry (63.1 mm) and Amberpet (57.4 mm). On the other hand, the extreme rainfall event pulled the summer temperatures down across the capital with the minimum temperature dropping to 18.9 degrees Celsius in the morning, a seven-degree drop from normal. The maximum temperature too dipped sharply to a pleasant 34.4 degrees Celsius, a five-degree departure from the normal May temperature, according to the IMD – Hyderabad.

The destruction trail left by the rains, apart from inundated areas, included a portion of the Shankar Mutt – VST Junction road caving in. The stretch was already excavated by the GHMC for developmental works. Three persons were also injured when the recently constructed parapet of a multi-storied building collapsed at Golnaka in Amberpet.

IMD Hyderabad director K Nagaratna said Wednesday’s event could not be called a ‘cloudburst’, as some sections of the media had reported. “It is an extremely heavy spell, which is normal in the summer season along with thundershowers,” she said. The IMD has issued a yellow alert to almost all districts including Hyderabad and Rangareddy for the next four days stating that light to moderate rains or thundershowers were likely.

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