Heavy rain receives in Hyderabad on Tuesday

Heavy rains lashed the State, including Hyderabad city, over the last 24 hours, resulting in inundation of several areas. More rains are expected across the State for next two days.

Waterlogged roads, traffic snarls, commuters cursing their fate and rain gods who appeared to be least bothered of the chaos down on the roads summed up Tuesday evening in Hyderabad.

The impact of the rains was widespread with traffic coming to a standstill on most thoroughfares. It was rush hour, but nobody could rush even if they wanted to. The situation saw traffic moving at a snail’s pace in Madhapur, Gachibowli, Jubilee Hills and surrounding areas, and prompted the Cyberabad Traffic Police to tweet that traffic had come to a standstill, especially in the Jubilee Hills area.

“Hence request all to leave office little late and observe staggered timings,” the Traffic Police tweeted.

Aggravating the situation further were poor road conditions that slowed down the crawling traffic even further. The cascading effect of potholes on the Divyasree Road slowed traffic from Khajaguda and Raidurgam towards the Biodiversity Junction.

Bumper to bumper traffic was witnessed on the stretch from Durgam Cheruvu Metro station to Neeru’s junction, Madhapur, IKEA to Hotel Trident, Cyber Towers and so on.

In the core of the city, there was slow movement of traffic from Mahaveer Hospital towards VV Statue junction, the CTO flyover, Balamrai and Tadbund crossroads towards New Bowenpally. Traffic on the Ramanthapur TV Tower road towards Golnaka via Amberpet 6



junction too got stuck for long.

Trimulgherry received the highest rainfall of 12.1 cm, followed by Uppal with 12 cm. More rains are expected across the State for next two days.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s monsoon emergency teams swung into action and initiated measures to clear water stagnation and facilitate the smooth flow of traffic.

With an active Southwest Monsoon, heavy rain occurred at isolated places in the districts of Nizamabad, Siddipet, Mancherial, Adilabad, Kumaram Bheem, Khammam and Medchal Malkajgiri. Light to moderate rain occurred in many places across the State including Hyderabad.

According to data released by the Telangana State Development Planning Society (TSDPS) at around 7 pm on Tuesday, the highest rainfall of 9 cm was recorded at Chimanpalle in Nizamabad district. Kannepalli in Mancherial district and Aswaraopeta in Bhadradri Kothagudem district received a rainfall of 8 cm each. 

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted heavy rains for next two days, under the influence of a trough running upto southwest of Madhya Pradesh across Vidarbha from an upper air cyclonic circulation over south Andhra Pradesh and neighbourhood. “As a result, heavy rain very likely to occur at isolated places in the districts of Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Warangal (Urban), Warangal (Rural), Mulugu, Mahbubnagar, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Khamam, Suryapet, Nalgonda, Nagarkurnool, Mahbubnagar, Narayanpet, Jogulamba Gadwal and Wanaparthy,” the officials said.