Tuesday evening in Nallagonda. Up until then the calm weather had changed and that was overcast. Is the sky perforated? The torrential rain overwhelmed. More than 20 centimeters of rainfall was received in just six hours. The record is now 119 years old. This is the first time in 200 years that 200mm of rain has fallen in such a short time. The 200mm is here in a 24-hour period on October 26, 2013. Rainfall was recorded. Now the rain is over in just 6 hours.
This level of rain fell on Tuesday evening from 5 pm to 11 pm. It has been raining for more than three hours in Nalgonda, Munyukodu, Tirupathi, Madgulapalli, Narkatpally, Chittila, Nereducharla and Suryapet. This caused the inland waters to flood into the houses. People were struggling with the current. Telangana also recorded the highest rainfall in the last 10 years in September. On September 7, 2014, the highest in the 24-hour period was 152.6 mm at Ramagundam. It was raining. That record was broken recently.
It broke the 200.8mm poured into Nalgonda on Tuesday and set a new record for the month of September. Heavy rains hit 700 areas in the state from Tuesday morning till 11 pm. Heavy rains were reported in 26 areas. The torrential rains that swept through the city of Hyderabad on Tuesday night created a ripple effect.
The rain, which started at 10.50 pm and continued till midnight, continued unabated.
Roads were inundated by heavy rain while the lowlands were flooded. Water was standing in the waist deep on some major roads. Buses to and from the outlying areas were stopped at Mehdipatnam, Kothi, lbnagar and Uppal. The commuters were severely affected. The meteorological department said that mild to moderate rains could be expected in several parts of Telangana over the next three days. Wednesday and Thursday are likely to be heavy and heavy rains on Friday.
