Sudden showers made the weather conditions pleasant on Tuesday. It was hot and humid but strong winds and heavy rains across the city changed the situation dramatically.
Heavy rains following strong winds across the city on Tuesday provided relief from humid conditions but the city people were forced to live in darkness and without fans and air coolers due to the broken power supply lines at several places.
During the day intense hot and humid conditions prevailed and late in the afternoon dense cloud cover was witnessed which resulted into heavy showers across the city with the advent of the evening.
With strong winds lightening and thundershowers were witnessed. Several trees fell in the heavy rains across the city and that also interrupted the power supply.
According to the information provided by BMC control room at Maida Mill, MP Nagar and Taliya police station trees fell in the abrupt weather.
Water logging was witnessed in almost all the low lying areas and even those areas which are not lying and have concrete roads also faced the water logging problem.
Due to the good amount of rainfall the day temperature dipped to 25 degree. After the strong rains heavy rains were witnesses and later light showers continued for hours.
On Sunday little rain was witnessed which provided relief for a shorter period and the day witnessed heavy humidity. Several areas went into darkness after the power supply was interrupted. Ambedkar Nagar, Ashoka Garden, Subhash Nagar, Shakti Nagar, Chandbad, Indrapuri, Shahjehanbad and several other areas went powerless for hours during the heavy rains.
City recorded a day temperature at 37.8 degree celsius and received around 3.2 mm of rainfall. Three important things are considered before declaring arrival of monsoon. The South Western direction of wind, quantity of moisture in air and continuous rains for two days are the three points which are considered and out of the three two have been witnessed.