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Lucknow flood: 50mm rain soaks Gomti Nagar, key roads
Lucknow received a sharp 45-minute rain spell around 6.30pm on Sunday, with Chinhat recording 51.5 mm and Sitapur Road 51 mm. The downpour, accompanied by thunderstorms, left key roads and residential stretches…
Lucknow received a sharp 45-minute rain spell around 6.30pm on Sunday, with Chinhat recording 51.5 mm and Sitapur Road 51 mm. The downpour, accompanied by thunderstorms, left key roads and residential stretches flooded, particularly in Gomti Nagar where Vinay Khand and Vivek Khand were inundated within an hour.
Waterlogging was reported from Polytechnic crossing to KGMU crossing, and Park Road near Civil Hospital had knee-deep water. Traffic backed up between Indira Gandhi Pratisthan and the PICUP building. The Amausi observatory recorded no significant rain, but Kakori Development Block got 46.5 mm and Sadar Tehsil 41.5 mm, the met office said.
The weather office has forecast cloudy skies in Lucknow on Monday with one or two rain spells. The IMD has issued an orange alert for very heavy rain in Prayagraj, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur and Chandauli, and a yellow alert for 11 other Uttar Pradesh districts.
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Lucknow has now received more than its August normal in just the first ten days of the month, putting pressure on the city's storm-water drains, which the Lucknow Municipal Corporation had last desilted before the 2023 monsoon. The Gomti Nagar stretches that flooded, Vinay Khand, Vivek Khand, Vibhuti Khand, are the same low-lying sectors that drew repeated complaints during the 2023 and 2024 monsoons. Under the state's Amrit 2.0 urban scheme, the corporation has a pending tender for 150 km of drain upgrades in these wards, but work has not begun. Monday's orange alert for very heavy rain in Prayagraj and adjoining districts suggests the weather system that caused the Sunday spell is moving east, so the next 48 hours will test whether the city's pumping stations at the Gomti barrage and the Raj Bhavan outfall can handle a second consecutive day of 50 mm-plus rain.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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