Rain throws life out of gear

Rain throws life out of gear
Bangalore, DHNS:
The heavy rains which lashed many parts of the City on Wednesday evening resulted in water logging and traffic jams.

Heavy rains lashed many parts of the City on Wednesday evening resulting in water logging and traffic jams. At around 4 pm water was flowing one foot above the ground level at Lalbagh main road because of a clogged drain.

There was waterlogging at the subway near the City railway station due to which pedestrians faced a lot of difficulty.

The impact of the downpour, which lasted around 20 minutes, was, however, not felt throughout Bangalore. Till 5.30 pm the City had recorded 35.6 mm rainfall while at the airport it was merely 7.3 mm.



The duty officer, MET Department said that Wednesday’s rain was mainly because of thunderstorm activity. “The rain was due to the stretch of low pressure trough between western MP to Peninsula.

There was heavy rainfall in several parts of Karnataka on Wednesday. Bajpe, Karwar, Panambur and Belgaum airport witnessed 28 mm, 26 mm, 15 mm and 13 mm rainfall respectively,” she said.

The weather in the next 24 hours would be cloudy and there would be one or two spells of rain or thunder shower in Bangalore. There would be rain in some coastal parts of the State, said the MET officer.