Telangana Sees Torrential Rains, Mulugu Logs 25.5 cm Downpour

swift Summary

• Telangana experienced heavy rainfall between Tuesday night (July 22, 2025) and Wednesday morning, with Venkatapuram in Mulugu district receiving the highest rainfall at 25.5 cm.
• A total of 12 locations in the state saw rainfall exceeding 10 cm, including:

– Eturunagaram (Mulugu): 18.4 cm
– Mangapet (Mulugu): 15.8 cm
– Alubaka (Mulugu): 14.9 cm
– Bheemadevarpalle (Hanumakonda): 14.4 cm
– other notable locations include Manuguru,Govindraopet,Mamillagudem,Mallur,Tekumatla,and Karkagudem with rainfall ranging from ~12 to ~10 cm.

• Within Greater Hyderabad municipal Corporation limits:

– Shaikpet recorded the maximum at 8.6 cm; Jubilee hills and Tolichowki followed with rainfalls of ~7-6 per location respectively.

• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a yellow alert for Hyderabad on Wednesday with predictions of light to moderate evening-to-night showers accompanied by possible gusty winds.

Indian Opinion analysis
The heavy monsoon rains in Telangana underline both environmental challenges and urban preparedness concerns for densely populated regions such as Greater Hyderabad. While strong rains serve as lifelines to agricultural communities dependent on water resources across districts like Mulugu or Hanumakonda-such intense whether patterns also expose vulnerabilities like waterlogging or traffic standstill common to metropolitans during disruptions forecasted under IMD’s recent warnings trails highlighted infrastructure gaps we’re yet progress_MAJOR point remains!balancing essentials-divider ritu-user