An outdated constructing collapsed in Vidyaranyapura in Bengaluru after heavy rains lashed town on Sunday, officers stated. No casualties had been reported, officers added. Heavy rainfall accompanied by hailstorms lashed Bengaluru on Sunday resulting in extreme water-logging in a number of components of town. The rains disrupted regular actions for residents in several components of town.
Trees had been uprooted in a number of localities and extreme water-logging was witnessed in an underpass within the KR circle space. People caught within the underpass had been safely rescued and brought to the hospital. The onset of monsoon over Kerala is prone to be delayed this yr, 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. 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.
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Last yr, the monsoon over Keraa occurred on May 29, two days after IMD’s prediction on May 27. The operational forecasts of the date of monsoon onset over Kerala through the previous 18 years (2005-2022) had been proved to be appropriate besides in 2015, the IMD stated.
“The six predictions of monsoon onset used in the models are: 1) Minimum temperatures over Northwest India 2) Pre-monsoon rainfall peak over the south Peninsula 3)Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) over the South China Sea 4) Lower tropospheric zonal wind over Southwest Indian Ocean (5) Mean sea level pressure over Subtropical NW Pacific Ocean (6) Upper tropospheric zonal wind over North East Indian Ocean,” IMD launch acknowledged.
(With inputs from ANI)
