28 mm rain: Bengaluru runs for cover

Bengaluru: Rain accompanied by 58 kmph winds lashed the city on Wednesday bringing down 22 trees and flooding many areas. The Met Department said the city received 28.4 mm of rain.

Water logging was reported at Trinity circle, Dasarahalli, R.R. Nagar, Bommanahalli and other areas. Mayor Manjunath Reddy and BBMP officials went around the city and later sat at the control room answering distress calls.

The Met department officials said that the HAL Airport recorded 25.8 mm rain, while Yelahanka witnessed 34 mm rainfall. As power went off in many areas because of tree falls and malfunctioning transformers, Bescom officials received 1,083 complaints between 6 pm and 8 pm.

The rainfall also damaged two electric poles in Nandini Layout and Magadi Road.
Bescom managing director Pankaj Kumar Pandey ordered all officials of all four circles to be on the field and attend to complaints immediately.

The Met Department officials said the city will see no sunshine and will witness rainfall over the next two days, as they forecast heavy rainfall in coastal and south-interior parts of the state, attributing it to depression over the Bay of Bengal.

“We cannot call it a cyclone, as it is a depression over the Bay of Bengal. Because of this, heavy rains are being witnessed in coastal and south-interior parts of the state,” said a Met Department official.

The south-interior parts include Ballari, Bengaluru Rural, Chamarajanagara, Chikkaballapura, Chikkamagaluru, Chitradurga and Davangere. He said that Bengaluru will not see sunshine over the next 48 hours and will witness rainfall. The city will have a maximum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 22 degrees Celsius for another two days, the official said.