Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday met the members of the family of 23-year-old girl Bhanurekha who died after drowning within the waterlogged underpass in KR Circle space in Bengaluru. Siddaramaiah met the household of Bhanurekha at Martha’s Hospital and provided condolences. Heavy rainfall and hailstorms lashed Bengaluru on Sunday resulting in extreme water-logging in a number of elements of the town.
The rains disrupted regular actions for residents in numerous elements of the town. Trees had been uprooted in a number of localities and extreme water-logging was witnessed in an underpass within the KR circle space. Earlier, a number of folks caught within the underpass had been safely rescued and brought to the hospital.
An outdated constructing collapsed in Vidyaranyapura in Bengaluru after heavy rains lashed the town on Sunday, officers stated. No casualties had been reported, officers added.
The onset of monsoon over Kerala is prone to be delayed this 12 months, predicting its arrival on June 4, 4 days after the conventional date predicted on June 1, India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated.
“Southwest monsoon normally sets in over Kerala on June 1 with a standard deviation of about 7 days. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has been issuing operational forecasts for the date of monsoon onset over Kerala from 2005 onwards. An indigenously developed state-of-the-art statistical model with a model error of +- 4 days is used for the purpose,” IMD acknowledged.
Last 12 months, the monsoon over Kerala occurred on May 29, two days after IMD’s prediction on May 27. The operational forecasts of the date of monsoon onset over Kerala throughout the previous 18 years (2005-2022) had been proved to be right besides in 2015, the IMD stated.
“The six predictors of monsoon onset used in the models are: i) Minimum Temperatures over Northwest India ii) Pre-monsoon rainfall peak over the south Peninsula iii) Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) over the South China Sea (iv) Lower tropospheric zonal wind over Southeast Indian Ocean (v) Mean sea level pressure over Subtropical NW Pacific Ocean (vi) Upper tropospheric zonal wind over North East Indian Ocean,” IMD launch acknowledged.
The southwest monsoon over the Indian mainland is marked by monsoon onset over Kerala and is a crucial indicator characterizing the transition from a scorching and dry season to a wet season.
