Heavy rain to lash Karnataka: 14 districts under IMD alert, wet spell to last 4 days

BENGALURU: With southwest monsoon resuming aggressively over Karnataka in the past few days, IMD Sunday issued red and orange alerts over 14 coastal and Western Ghats districts, along with a yellow alert for both north and south interior Karnataka districts, including Bengaluru.

According to IMD officials, the existing rain and windy conditions are likely to prevail over Karnataka for the next four days.As per the latest IMD forecast for the next four days, parts of coastal and north interior Karnataka are likely to receive very heavy to heavy rainfall along with strong, gusty winds with a speed of 40 to 50 kmph. Similarly, light to moderate rainfall is likely to occur in North and South Interior Karnataka districts, including Bengaluru Urban. A senior IMD scientist from the Bengaluru centre said, "The widely distributed rainfall across Karnataka is attributed to two prevailing weather conditions - the upper air cyclonic circulation over Marathwada and a trough from a similar feature extending up to coastal Andhra Pradesh across Telangana. This apart, the earlier cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal merged with yet another cyclonic circulation near South Bangladesh.

All these conditions influenced rainfall over Karnataka."Red alert districts (extremely very heavy rainfall): Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada, Udupi, Chikkamgaluru, Kodagu & Shivamogga.Orange alert districts (very heavy rainfall): Belagavi, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Chamarajanagar, Davanagere, Hassan & Mysuru.Yellow alert districts (heavy rainfall): Mandya, Koppal, Kalaburagi & Bidar.