Blog of Hammad Rais

This monsoon season is epic!

Starting from yesterday afternoon, another spell of monsoon season hit my city Karachi.

Expectations were made earlier for this but we weren’t expected it to be that much heavier as this spell poured down more than 170mm of rain in some areas.

Which obviously caused high level urban flooding in many parts of Karachi.

I headed to my roof top just before the rainfall started and captured this panoramic shot:

After just a minute, I captured another shot:

Certainly the blackest clouds I have ever seen. Heavy rainfall started within a minute and it last for more than an hour.

Then today, yet another set of dark clouds appeared on the evening sky:

This monsoon spell is expected stay over Karachi for few more days, so I will take some shots 🙂

You can click on the images above to see them in full resolution over my Flickr page.