Heavy rains lash parts of Hyderabad

Heavy rains lash several parts of Hyderabad on Sunday leading to power outages across the city. Areas like LB Nagar, Hayath Nagar, Nagole, BN Reddy, Meerpet, Hastinapuram, Vanasthalipuram, Malkajgiri, Uppal and Secunderabad witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall.

The officials of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted heavy rainfall in Hyderabad for the next few days and alerted the GHMC and disaster response team. The officials said that the south-west monsoon winds are likely to touch the Arabian Sea, Maldives, south-west and the south-east Bay of Bengal in the next 24 hours.

A low-pressure area will be also formed over south-east Arabian sea and the neighbouring east-central Arabian sea in the next 48 hours which later move towards the east Arabian sea and turn as a depression. Due to the depression, the south-west monsoon winds are likely to touch Kerala by June 1.

On the other hand, districts like Adilabad, Nirmal, Komaram-Bheem, Nizamabad, Jagtial, Kamareddy are likely to experience heatwave. Moderate to heavy rainfall is also predicted today and tomorrow in some parts of Telangana.