HYDERABAD: Residents within the city had been taken by way of marvel after a unexpected hailstorm lashed parts of Hyderabad on Saturday afternoon. Various localities additionally witnessed light rains and thunderstorm that brought much relief from the scorching warmth. The maximum temperature within the city had touched 40 level Celsius previous within the day.
The brief spells of hailstorm had been reported from areas similar to Shaikpet, Manikonda, Hafeezpet amongst others. “After short time of light showers, we abruptly noticed marble-sized hail falling from the sky. We had been left shocked as we couldn’t believe that even during such prime temperatures there could be a hailstorm,” said Mohammad Rasheed Farazuddin, the corporator of Shaikpet.
While the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Hyderabad, had predicted thunderstorm accompanied by way of gusty winds at isolated puts in all districts of Telangana between March 31 and April 1, Saturday’s hailstorm stuck folks unaware. In some areas alongside Hyderabad’s western hall, it lasted for a excellent 30 minutes or extra.
Within minutes of it beginning, social media platforms had been flooded with images and videos of the hailstorm, with some even being circulated on messaging apps. Groups had been abuzz with users posting footage and their accounts of getting encountered the rare prevalence. “Haven't seen raining stones up to now 4years. #Hyderabad is witnessing nowadays, a rain of stones, amid a very hot weather. This could be very refreshening, climate changed! #Happy (sic),” tweeted Ajay Kumar.
While meteorologists may now not ascertain the hailstorm, they attributed it to the thunderstorm process. “Due to prime humidity and mercury stage, thunderstorm process happens. The depth used to be more potent within the north-east part of the town. Few areas similar to Hi-tec City, Hafeezpet, Hakimpet, Kondapur witnessed gusty winds along side light rain and thunderstorm,” said YK Reddy, director of IMD, Hyderabad.
According to the Telangana State Development and Planning Society, the humidity stage used to be above 80 in keeping with cent in Musheerabad, West Maredpally, Malkajgiri, Virat Nagar, Kapra and Moulali.
Private weather forecasting companies are expecting that premonsoon showers are likely to hit the town over the following few days. The weather during the day is predicted to be humid and warm. “These pre-monsoon actions are likely to occur because of quite a lot of weather methods prevailing around the Telangana,” stated weather record issued by way of Skymet, a personal weather forecasting agency.
Other parts of the state — similar to Ibrahimpatnam mandal in Rangareddy district and Siddipet the town — too witnessed heavy rains accompanied by way of lightening and hail. Crop used to be damaged at a couple of puts because of unseasonal rains. The mercury which used to be soaring above 35 degrees abruptly dropped by way of the night time as darkish clouds engulfed Siddipet, Vikarabad, Ibrahimpatnam, Medak and Sangareddy. At some puts the heavy rain used to be accompanied by way of robust winds. Power supply used to be additionally disrupted.
The brief spells of hailstorm had been reported from areas similar to Shaikpet, Manikonda, Hafeezpet amongst others. “After short time of light showers, we abruptly noticed marble-sized hail falling from the sky. We had been left shocked as we couldn’t believe that even during such prime temperatures there could be a hailstorm,” said Mohammad Rasheed Farazuddin, the corporator of Shaikpet.
While the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Hyderabad, had predicted thunderstorm accompanied by way of gusty winds at isolated puts in all districts of Telangana between March 31 and April 1, Saturday’s hailstorm stuck folks unaware. In some areas alongside Hyderabad’s western hall, it lasted for a excellent 30 minutes or extra.
Within minutes of it beginning, social media platforms had been flooded with images and videos of the hailstorm, with some even being circulated on messaging apps. Groups had been abuzz with users posting footage and their accounts of getting encountered the rare prevalence. “Haven't seen raining stones up to now 4years. #Hyderabad is witnessing nowadays, a rain of stones, amid a very hot weather. This could be very refreshening, climate changed! #Happy (sic),” tweeted Ajay Kumar.
While meteorologists may now not ascertain the hailstorm, they attributed it to the thunderstorm process. “Due to prime humidity and mercury stage, thunderstorm process happens. The depth used to be more potent within the north-east part of the town. Few areas similar to Hi-tec City, Hafeezpet, Hakimpet, Kondapur witnessed gusty winds along side light rain and thunderstorm,” said YK Reddy, director of IMD, Hyderabad.
According to the Telangana State Development and Planning Society, the humidity stage used to be above 80 in keeping with cent in Musheerabad, West Maredpally, Malkajgiri, Virat Nagar, Kapra and Moulali.
Private weather forecasting companies are expecting that premonsoon showers are likely to hit the town over the following few days. The weather during the day is predicted to be humid and warm. “These pre-monsoon actions are likely to occur because of quite a lot of weather methods prevailing around the Telangana,” stated weather record issued by way of Skymet, a personal weather forecasting agency.
Other parts of the state — similar to Ibrahimpatnam mandal in Rangareddy district and Siddipet the town — too witnessed heavy rains accompanied by way of lightening and hail. Crop used to be damaged at a couple of puts because of unseasonal rains. The mercury which used to be soaring above 35 degrees abruptly dropped by way of the night time as darkish clouds engulfed Siddipet, Vikarabad, Ibrahimpatnam, Medak and Sangareddy. At some puts the heavy rain used to be accompanied by way of robust winds. Power supply used to be additionally disrupted.
Sudden hailstorm cuts scorcher, city buoyed by breeze & mild nip
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