With the strengthening of southwest monsoon over the Arabian Sea and a low-pressure area expected to form over west-central and adjoining north-west Bay of Bengal around July 11, rain activity over the west and east coasts will increase, as per the IMD predictions.
Ballari, Koppal, Gadag, Bidar, Gulbarga, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Dharwad, Raichur, Devangere, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, and Bangalore rural have experienced ‘excess’ to ‘very excess’ rainfall this year already.
The IMD said low-pressure area to form over the West and Central region in the coming days. Therefore, the weather department issued an orange alert on July 9, 10 and 13. As per the IMD, orange colour signifies very heavy rainfall, and red colour signifies exceptionally heavy rainfall.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday issued red and orange alerts for Karnataka after the coastal part of the state experienced widespread rainfall.
The increase in rain activity is likely to continue for the next 5 days. During July 9-12, heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely over Maharashtra and Goa, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala.
With the strengthening of southwest monsoon over the Arabian Sea and a low-pressure area expected to form over west-central and adjoining north-west Bay of Bengal around July 11, rain activity over the west and east coasts will increase, as per the IMD predictions.
Further, Bengaluru is very likely to experience rain and thundershower during the next two days, CS Patil, Director, IMD Bengaluru, said on Friday.
