Heavy rain lashes Madurai, suburbs

Madurai: Heavy rain lashed Madurai city and its suburbs on Friday night, as the district received 26.76mm of rainfall in just three hours. Some parts of the city received more than 100mm of rainfall.

Thunder showers began lashing the city around 6pm and continued for more than three hours. The rain gauge in Tallakulam showed 30mm rainfall and Madurai north received 106mm of rainfall, while the airport recorded 103mm rainfall. Many places in the city were inundated. The area around Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple witnessed flooding and people had to wade through knee deep water.

In residential areas such as Gomathypuram, where the inner roads do not have storm water drains, flooding made it difficult for vehicles to move. Thalai street, Parijatham street, and Kondrai street were among those which continued to have large pools of water even on Saturday morning.

Thirumangalam recorded 65.6mm, Chittampatti 42.6mm, Vadipatti 58mm, Pulipatti 36.5mm of rainfall. Many waterbodies in Madurai north also filled up.

Meanwhile, the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam stood at 128.6ft with an inflow of 685 cusecs and a discharge of 1,300 cusecs. Vaigai dam’s water level stood at 54.59ft, with an inflow of 1,001 cusecs and 1,219 cusecs discharged from it.


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