Regular life was disrupted as soon as once more following heavy pre-monsoon thundershowers that hit Bengaluru early Tuesday, with the India Meteorological Division (IMD) issuing a crimson alert for the subsequent two days for town and Karnataka, forecasting heavy rain and thunderstorms.
The Karnataka State Pure Catastrophe Monitoring Centre has additionally predicted extraordinarily heavy rain, thunderstorms, and lightning on Wednesday, Might 21, and heavy rain, thunderstorms, and lightning for Might 22 and 23. Heavy rain can also be predicted for the subsequent three days on Might 24, 25, and 26.
The IMD observatory in Bengaluru Metropolis recorded 37 mm of rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 8.30 am Tuesday. From 8.30 am Monday to eight.30 am Tuesday, the very best rainfall of 150 mm was recorded in Rajarajeshwari Nagar. R R Nagara recorded 159 mm, Kengeri recorded 144 mm, Vidyapeeta recorded 128 mm, Nayandahalli recorded 123 mm, and Doresanipalya recorded 99 mm of rainfall Tuesday ending at 8.30 am.
Tuesday morning showers left many areas marooned, resulting in waterlogging and site visitors snarls.
In line with the Bengaluru site visitors police division, slow-moving site visitors was noticed in a number of areas resulting from waterlogging, together with Hosur Street, Iblur junction, Kasthuri Nagar, Hoodi, Gouraguntepalya, Bannerghatta Essential Street, Balekundri junction, Queens Street, Silk Board Metro Station, Pothalappa Backyard, and Madivala, amongst different areas.
Hosur Street, protecting Digital Metropolis, together with the elevated expressway, was closed for site visitors motion briefly at round 9.30 am earlier than it was opened at 10.45 am. Digital Metropolis homes main IT corporations, together with Infosys, TCS, Wipro, and others.
Many commuters expressed frustration over gradual site visitors motion, with some taking so long as two hours to cowl simply 7 km. “Left Digital Metropolis at 8 AM as flyovers had been blocked. Obtained caught close to Kudlu Gate—buses not transferring. 7 km in 2+ hours. Aged folks, office-goers, all stranded. This isn’t the Bengaluru we knew,” Reshma Nair posted on X.
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Many of the IT corporations alongside Outer Ring Street between Ok R Puram and Silk Board have suggested workers to earn a living from home in mild of heavy rain.
Bangalore Central MP PC Mohan stated in an X publish, “All corporations in Bengaluru, together with Infosys, should declare two days of earn a living from home resulting from rains.”
In the meantime, Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya slammed the Congress authorities on X forward of the state authorities’s two-year celebration in Hospet. “Two years of @INCKarnataka’s #LootSarkara. Achievements? 1. Governance = Zero 2. Taxpayers = Freebie ATMs 3. Legislation & Order = Lacking 4. Corruption = Maxed out Model Bengaluru? Collapsing with each rain. Residents need governance, not gimmicks. Karnataka deserves higher,” he stated in a publish on X.
Bengaluru acquired a heavy spell of rain on the intervening night time of Sunday and Monday, leaving residents of low-lying areas fighting waterlogging. In line with the climate division, a number of areas throughout Bengaluru acquired over 100 mm of rain in a single day.
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A 35-year-old lady was killed after a compound wall at an IT agency collapsed after heavy rain lashed Bengaluru for over six hours between Sunday and Monday.
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