August Turns Wettest Month for Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Hyderabad has already seen three separate downpours exceeding 100 mm within the first 10 days of August — an unusually busy start to the month for the city — and more is expected, with the IMD tracking a low-pressure system in the coming days.

Rain gauges in localities such as Begum Bazaar, Khairatabad, and Charminar crossed the mark during two intense spells on August 7 and August 9, while Gachibowli logged a cloudburst-like hour that pushed totals well past 100 mm.

Elsewhere in the state, August 12 brought very heavy rain to the north and along the Godavari belt, including 238.4 mm at Bheemini in Mancherial and more than 120 mm at several stations across Komaram Bheem, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, and Mulugu.

Telangana usually records about 215 mm in August, while Hyderabad’s August average is close to 160 mm. This year, the monsoon began poorly in the city, with June receiving less rain than April and May.

Many weather experts called it “the worst June for Hyderabad since 2000 and 2014.” The pattern reversed in August, as successive systems lined up over the Deccan plateau and triggered three 100 mm-plus days within just 10 days. The state’s seasonal tally since June 1 is around normal for this stage of the monsoon, thanks to August’s surge.

Data from the last two years shows how drastically conditions can change. August 2023 was almost dry across Telangana, recording only about one-third of the usual rainfall and no major rain days in Hyderabad.

August 2024 recovered ground, with a late-month system dumping more than 200 mm in a day at 21 stations across eight districts, pushing the state’s monthly total near the long-term average and setting up a very wet end to the 2024 monsoon. Hyderabad’s total monsoon rainfall also increased from about 770 mm in 2023 to around 830 mm in 2024, and more than 1,100 mm for the June 2024-May 2025 period when post-monsoon showers were included.

August is usually the wettest month for both Telangana and Hyderabad. In 2025, it has earned that title through short, intense bursts rather than steady rain — rising from a dry June and a patchy July to several heavy days in quick succession — while northern districts saw their own extreme day on August 12.

Compared with the dry August of 2023 and the near-normal August of 2024, which had its biggest day outside the capital, August 2025 has already packed more high-intensity events into just a fortnight.