IMD issued heavy rainfall alert in Karnataka for next 2 days

The people who are suffering from the scorching sun have got some relief news as the weather department has predicted that there will be heavy rain in the state for the next two days. IMD issued heavy rainfall alert in Karnataka for next 2 days.

The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted that there will be rain in some parts of the coast and southern hinterland for the next 2 days, while there will be thundershowers in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Bengaluru City, Chamarajanagar, Kodagu, Mandya, Mysuru, Ramanagara for the next 2 days.

There is a possibility of showers in the southern hinterland and heavy rains are likely to occur in Bengaluru City, Bengaluru Rural, Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Tumkur, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, Madikeri, Shivamogga, Chamarajanagar, Mysuru, Mandya, Ramanagara, kodagu districts for the next 2 days.

Cyclone Mocha hit land in Myanmar on Sunday afternoon, more than 500km from Kolkata, unleashing monstrous winds and torrential rain. At the time of landfall near Sittwe, the capital of the Rakhine state in Myanmar, Mocha was an “extremely severe cyclonic storm”.

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Around 550km from Sittwe, all that Kolkata got were breeze and a partly cloudy sky, which brought the Celsius down. The winds came from the outer edge of the storm, via northeastern India. Cyclone gone, the conditions are likely to be gradually conducive to thunderstorms in Kolkata, according to the Met forecast.

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The storm unleashed winds that clocked 209kpmh during landfall, according to Myanmar’s Meteorological Department. It damaged houses, transformers and cell phone towers and tore roofs off buildings in Sittwe and adjacent areas.