Rain In Hyderabad

As predicted by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Hyderabad, the city on Thursday, experienced light to moderate rains with many areas getting up to 36 mm of rainfall in the span of a few hours. The IMD had issued a thunderstorm warning associated with gusty winds from April 8 to 10.

The met department has predicted that the rainfall activity will continue for the next few days in Hyderabad. After a long dry spell, the city saw showers during the weekend with many areas witnessing up to three cm of rainfall. Due to the incessant rainfall, the deficit has come down from 35% to 28%.

Rains in Hyderabad: Rains continued to lash Hyderabad, throwing life out of gear in the city. Low-lying areas in several parts of the city were inundated with flood waters. Damaged roads and water logging led to huge traffic jams.

Revellers party at rain in hyderabad

Three days of incessant rain triggered by the northeast monsoon has brought Hyderabad to a halt and exposed the government's poor contingency measures as waterclogged arterial routes threw traffic out of gear and turned commuting into a nightmare.

Heavy rains lashed several parts of Telangana, including Hyderabad city, from Tuesday night and continued on Wednesday morning.

Heavy rain lashed Hyderabad and nearby areas as well as several other districts of Telangana on Sunday, inundating roads and low-lying areas and throwing traffic out of gear in the city.

After days of hot and humid weather, Hyderabad received heavy rainfall — of up to 74 mm — on Thursday, as the southwest monsoon picked up pace across the state.

The torrential rains in Hyderabad that continued through Wednesday claimed the lives of a 23-year-old fitness trainer from Madhapur and 43-year-old priest from Pochampally.

Rains in Hyderabad: Torrential downpour triggered by a cyclonic circulation on Wednesday left seven people dead in city. The rains caused a chaotic situation with huge traffic gridlocks in many parts of the city till afternoon.

Heavy rains of up to 50 mm lashed many western and central parts of the city on Monday evening bringing down the maximum temperature to 36.7 degree Celsius, which is almost three degree Celsius below normal for this time of the season.

Gusty winds up to 78 km per hour accompanied by heavy rains left a trail of destruction across the city, resulting in power outages that lasted up to 20 hours in many areas. According to moderate estimates, 637 trees were uprooted, with most of them falling on electricity wires.

Thundershowers lashed the twin cities on Friday late afternoon giving its residents the much needed relief from the summer heat.

After light showers on Saturday, the city experienced heavy rains accompanied with hailstorm in some areas on Sunday.

Skies opened up suddenly and the 94.8mm heavy downpour inundated Hyderabad in an hour, severely hampering the movement of vehicles, drowning bikes and holding up ambulances in various places.

Hyderabad was pummelled with incessant rains for the fifth consecutive day on Friday. Several low lying colonies were inundated, trees got uprooted and stretches of roads got washed away, making commuting a slow torture.

Heavy showers lashed the city on Thursday evening bringing traffic to a standstill in many places across the city including Banjara Hills, Mehdipatnam, Towlichowki and Nampally among others.

The city on Thursday received light to moderate rains of up to 48 mm, resulting in a massive drop in the mercury levels.

The vigorous southwest monsoon, over parts of the state, has resulted in an intense spell of rainfall in many parts of the western corridor of the city on Sunday even as many other parts of the city - in the central corridor and in Secunderabad - remained dry.

After a hiatus of a few days, heavy rains of up to 91 mm lashed parts of the city leaving many areas waterlogged and plunged into darkness on Sunday.

Heavy rains flooded streets and low-lying areas on Sunday, bringing traffic to a halt in many areas across the city. A tragedy was averted at LB Nagar where locals rescued a five-year-old girl who had fallen into a nala.

The city witnessed heavy rains through the day on Thursday with cyclone Nilam weakening into a depression, bringing down the day temperature by 6 degree celsius with the afternoon turning into an unusual cold grey hue.

Commuting in the city on Monday turned into an ordeal due to heavy spells of rain throughout the day and resulted in the usual aftermath -- traffic jams, water logging and uprooting of trees.

Over 12 hours of heavy rain since Friday evening saw the entire civic system in the city collapse and laid bare the unpreparedness of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and other agencies.

For the second day in a row, heavy rains caused by a cyclonic circulation lashed several parts of the city on Wednesday afternoon, bringing traffic to a halt and civic authorities' ill-preparedness to the fore.

Heavy rains lashed Hyderabad on Wednesday, throwing life out of gear in several parts of the city.

Two days of torrential rains brought Hyderabad to a standstill and caused severe damage to properties. Police station, government school and a hospital were inundated, a portion of Balaclava Road caved-in, vehicles were washed away, trees fell and several low-lying areas were affected.