Bandlaguda gets 10 cm rainfall

In a span of 24 hours, beginning from 8.30 am on Saturday, torrential rain lashed parts of the city and the state. The city’s highest rainfall of 103.8 mm was registered at Bandlaguda in Uppal mandal.

This was followed by Thatiannaram in LB Nagar and CBCID Colony in Kukatpally, which received 94.5 mm and 86.8 mm of rainfall, respectively.

If all goes by the predictions made by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the city will continue to witness rainfall for the next few days, albeit with lesser intensity.

“Monsoon is active across the State in July and August. That is why we are witnessing a strong monsoon wave. While there would be rains over the city for the next few days, the intensity might not be as strong as what we had witnessed,” IMD director, K Naga Ratna, told Deccan Chronicle.

Similarly, private weather forecasting outfits like Skymet predict that over the next 24 hours, light to moderate showers are expected over South Chhattisgarh, South Odisha, parts of Telangana, Marathwada, Southwestern, and South Madhya Pradesh, South Gujarat, South Madhya Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, and Lakshadweep. Heavy rainfall may occur at one or two places.

As a result of the rains, there was water logging in low-lying areas causing traffic hurdles. Fortunately, since there was no or very little wind movement, power disruptions were down to a minimum.

“We only cut power whenever there is wind blowing, which could cause the hitension wires to make contact with one another. But, in the recent rains there was only a downpour, no galelike winds,” said J Srinivas Reddy, director (operations), Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL).