Monsoon rains lash Hyderabad

The monsoon continued its tryst with the city lashing the core areas and suburbs with intermittent spells and forcing the sun behind a blanket of thick clouds.

The latest spell of rain, which took off on Monday, continued on Tuesday too across the city. More is in store with the Met department officials making a forecast of one or two spells of rains or thundershowers in different parts of the city on Wednesday too. And the same weather conditions are expected to continue for the next couple of days.

Following the rains, complaints of water stagnation and uprooting of trees were lodged from different areas. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) received complaints of over 12 tree collapse and 26 wager stagnation till Tuesday morning. Office-bound employees and schoolchildren faced inconveniences in reaching their workplaces and schools respectively as vehicles had to move through sheets of water in some areas.

Similar was the plight in the evening too as light to moderate rains lashed many areas. Till 6 pm on Tuesday, Qutbullapur received the highest rainfall of 18 mm,



followed by Malkajgiri and Alwal, which recorded 13.5 mm and 9.8 mm respectively.

Monsoon emergency teams of the municipal corporation swung into action and cleared the fallen tree branches besides water stagnation, to facilitate the smooth flow of traffic.

The current spell of heavy rains over parts of Telangana will continue for at least one more day, according to the IMD.

In its forecast till September 7, the IMD said heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places in Adilabad, Kumram Bheem-Asifabad, Nirmal, Nizamabad, Jagitial, Mancherial, Peddapalli, Rajanna-Sircilla, Karimnagar, Mulugu, Rural and Urban Warangal, Mahbubabad, Bhadradri-Kothagudem, Suryapet and Khammam.

The southwest monsoon was normal and the present weather conditions were likely to result in light to moderate rain or even thundershowers at many places till Saturday. The monsoon has been active over the State with a low pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal with its shear zone lying along 18 and 20 degrees north latitudes.