As if to compensate for the first three months of monsoon, skies have opened up over Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and it rained cat and dogs on Friday leaving several areas waterlogged. The Telangana Government has put the administration on high alert in view of the warning of more rain in the days to come.
And if the rain of the last six days was not enough, the Indian Meteorological Centre at Hyderabad has warned of more heavy rain over parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh including Hyderabad for another week.
They have forecast that the rain will continue in Hyderabad till September 17. Widespread heavy rains were also forecast for other parts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as a well marked low pressure area was likely to be formed in the Bay of Bengal under the influence of cyclonic circulation over the West Central Bay. Weather officials said that the impact of the low pressure will be felt form Chhattisgarh to the southern Tamil Nadu through coastal Andhra.
At the same time the south west monsoon had become active over Rayalaseema region bringing more rain to the region as well as adjoining coastal Andhra.
Weather was likely to be wet under the influence of another trough from Maharashtra to lakshadweep islands, they said.
This is coming on the back of copious rain over the last six days which brought good inflows in to the rivers and the reservoirs easing the grim drought situation.
Following the heavy rain on Friday the life came to a standstill in Hyderabad city as there was gridlock of traffic jams on the city roads due to the water-logging. Water also entered into many residential areas forcing the people to move to safer places.
The rains were also accompanied by gale which brought down the trees. Two cars were damaged when a tree fell down in l Block of Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad.
Roads wore deserted look as much harassed by the traffic jams citizens preferred to remain indoors for most parts of the day. Dark clouds had darkened the sky from the early evening and the people to put on the headlights of their vehicles as well as at their homes.
As the drains were already over flowing due to the heavy rain and roads were water-logged at many places officials and emergency teams were at work to restore the normalcy. But they were apprehending more problems if rain continues like this for a few more days. Emergency control rooms were also established to coordinate the work of emergency teams of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
Two women died on Friday when lightning struck them at Gudipally village under Nagarkurnool mandal of Mehbubnagar district. Two others were also injured and admitted to a hospital. Mehbubnagar was among the districts receiving good rains for the past few days.
23 people were killed when lightning struck in 8 districts of AP earlier this week.