Bengaluru weather: IMD warns of heavy rainfall in the city, across Karnataka
IMD Scientist N Puviarasan on Wednesday said, "We are giving alerts for heavy rainfall in Bengaluru today and tomorrow. Most places will receive light to moderate rainfall and heavy rain is likely at a few places. We expect extremely heavy rainfall tomorrow over coastal Karnataka and adjoining areas like Shivamogga, Chikmangaluru, Belagavi. Rains will continue for the next 4-5 days. Yellow alert has been issued for Bengaluru and orange alert has been issued for coastal Karnataka.' He said red alert has been issued for Karnataka on Thursday.
IMD issues warning for Karnataka
The southwest monsoon, which had halted for almost two weeks, has become active again with rains in several parts of Karnataka on Thursday morning. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a seven-day warning for Karnataka, predicting "widespread" rainfall in nearly all districts until June 17.
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In the early hours of Thursday, Dharwad district experienced torrential rainfall, causing waterlogging in several areas.
According to the weather department, rainfall will remain widespread in coastal and north interior Karnataka until June 17.
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Meanwhile, rainfall will be "fairly widespread" in south interior Karnataka until June 14 before turning "widespread" for the next three days.
In coastal Karnataka districts, the IMD has forecast "heavy to very heavy rain with sustained wind at 30 to 40 kilometer per hour (kmph), which likely to occur at a few places and extremely heavy rain likely to occur at one or two places over Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada and Udupi districts."
For north interior Karnataka, the IMD said, "Heavy to very heavy rain with sustained wind at 50 to 60 kmph likely to occur at a few places and extremely heavy rain with sustained wind likely to occur at one or two places over Belagavi, Dharwad and Gadag districts."
"Heavy rain with sustained wind at 40 to 50 kmph likely to occur at one or two places over Koppal, Haveri, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Kalburgi and Raichur districts. Moderate rain with sustained wind at 40-50 kmph is likely to occur at most places over Bidar and Yadgir districts," IMD said in its report.
In south interior Karnataka, heavy to very heavy rainfall has been predicted with sustained wind at 50-60 kmph, which are likely to occur at a few places and extremely heavy rain with sustained wind at the same speed is likely to occur at one or two places over Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru and Kodagu districts.
"Heavy rain with sustained wind (40-50 kmph) likely to occur at one or two places over Ballari, Bengaluru (Rural), Bengaluru (Urban), Chikkaballapura, Mandya, Ramanagara, Tumakuru, Mysuru, Davangere, Hassan and Vijayanagar districts. Moderate rain with sustained wind (40-50 kmph) likely to occur at most places over Chamarajanagar, Chitradurga and Kolar districts," IMD said.
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