Heavy Rainfall Lashes Guwahati, Leads To Waterlogging In Some Areas

Guwahati: Several areas in the city on Monday witnessed waterlogging, flash floods, and traffic jams after a heavy downpour in the morning.

Areas like Zoo Road, Chandmari, Dispur, and Hatigaon areas were greatly affected by the rainfall as water accumulation caused traffic jams.

However, this is not the first case of such an incident being reported in the city, each year, especially in summer, the same scenario has been repeating for decades.

Meanwhile, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has also predicted heavy rainfall on and 3 May across Assam and Meghalaya.

''Isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal-Sikkim on 02nd May; over Arunachal Pradesh on 02nd & 03rd; over Assam-Meghalaya & Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram-Tripura during 02nd-04th May. Isolated very heavy rainfall likely over Assam-Meghalaya & Tripura 03rd May,'' IMD tweeted.

It also said that there will be scattered to fairly widespread rainfall with isolated thunderstorm/lightning/gusty winds (speed reaching 40-50 kmph) very likely over Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal & Odisha during the next 5 days.

Earlier also, the weather forecast agency had shared its weather forecast according to which there would be isolated heavy rainfall in the regions of Assam and Meghalaya.

Also read: Service of Guwahati's LGBI airport staff appreciated

Also watch: