Hyderabad To Witness More Heavy Rain: IMD

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday night issued a rain alert for six days up in Hyderabad.

The agency this morning said, "isolated heavy rain accompanied with thunderstorm is likely to occur today afternoon/night".

Heavy to very heavy rainfall occurred over Hyderabad & neighbourhood yesterday, the 17th October.
Rainfall realized:
Hyderabad city 7.3 cm
Medchal Malkajgiri 17 cm
Charminar 15 cm
Forecast for today:
Isolated Heavy rain accompanied with thunderstorm likely today afternoon/night pic.twitter.com/31VLlt4Cvk

— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) October 18, 2020

The weather agency predicted that for Sunday Hyderabad may experience a partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers. Following by a cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers on Monday and on Tuesday the city will see heavy rain. There will be a generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers on Wednesday and rains have been predicted for Thursday and Friday.

Hyderabad on Saturday night witnessed another monsoon fury that submerged roads, flooded houses, toppled and swept away vehicles. As many as 50 people have already died in the unprecedented rains that lashed the capital city since last week, besides some other districts in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. 

An NDTV report showed visuals of vehicles being washed away in the got flood submerged streets. Executive editor Uma Sudhir tweeted visuals from the city flood

More and more visuals you see, more and frightening the situation looks; force of water current just washing away cars like toys in a stream; locals saying #BalapurLake breached leading to flooding, no confirmation yet from official sources @ndtv @ndtvindia #HyderabadFloods pic.twitter.com/VBT2jG2CgT

— Uma Sudhir (@umasudhir) October 18, 2020

"The Disaster Response Force (DRF) personnel of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) were continuously working on the field clearing water stagnations and inundations," the report added.