Due to heavy rains, commuters in Bengaluru faced additional challenges due to poor street lighting and numerous potholes, making nighttime travel particularly hazardous.
This resulted in major disruptions on August 5, Monday evening as torrential downpour caused gridlock across the city. The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted for Tuesday light to moderate rainfall with a chance of thunderstorms.
The rain that poured yesterday accompanied by thunder and lightning led to waterlogged streets and heavy traffic jams in various parts of the city. Rainfall continued till late hours into the night. Fortunately, there were no reports of casualties.
Hebbal Junction was massively flooded along with Outer Ring Road (ORR) between Nagavara and Hebbal—a key route to Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). This resulted in airport traffic being severely disrupte.
After hot weather broke for some time, several places including Koramangala, Ramamurthy Nagar, Indiranagar, RT Nagar, Thanisandra, RR Nagar, Kengeri, Banashankari Nayandahalli Malleswaram Yeshwanthpur BTM Layout Marathalli Whitefield have experienced thunderstorms again.
Commuters faced additional challenges due to poor street lighting and numerous potholes, making nighttime travel particularly hazardous.
Many areas had slow traffic
In many places such as Old Udaya TV Junction towards Jayamahal roads like Veerannapalya service road Nagavara Kalpana Junction ORR near Kasturinagar Hebbal Junction saw low moving traffic. At 11:15 pm the navigation apps showed congestion from Hebbal Junction up to Kalyan Nagar.
Other parts of the city were also affect by heavy rains such as Hennur Road CBI underpass on Ballari Road Bhoopasandra Road Mehkri Circle Mysuru Road Peenya Industrial Area Yelahanka Jakkur Vishwanath Nagenahalli Fraser Town Sampangirama Nagar Vannarapete VV Puram Banashankari Vidyapeetha Nayandahalli Kengeri RR Nagar Basapura Herohalli Chowdeshwari ward Bagalagunte Maruthi Mandir Hampinagar Vijayanagar Rajajinagar BTM Layout Marathahalli Mahadevapura Vignananagar Hoodi Cottonpet Guttahalli.
By 11:30 pm, the IMD recorded 38.1 mm of rain at its Bengaluru city observatory and 28 mm at the HAL airport observatory on Monday. Since the southwest monsoon set in Bangalore has received a total of 366.1mm of rainfall with HAL airport getting 290mm.
