It took only a spell of heavy summer showers to overwhelm many parts of Bengaluru on Tuesday.
Streets were flooded, traffic slowed and more than a dozen inbound flights were diverted as a thunderstorm accompanied by lightning hit the city’s eastern and northern suburbs late in the evening. It was so intense that rainwater gushed into the concourses of some metro stations on the newly opened Whitefield line.
The mercury dropped by seven degrees Celsius in the east of the city. The central and western parts, however, hardly got any rain.
