Half the month has already passed but days don’t seem to change for Bangalore. While the entire country is witnessing good monsoon showers, Bangalore seems to bear no rain at all and chances of rain look dismal in the future too. So have the monsoon rains weakened over the city? While the month of May ended on a good note, June is proving to be a month of worries for people of the city. “Records at Skymet Weather show there has been over only 3mm of rain in the last one week, whereas the total amount of rainfall till now has only been up to 26mm’, says, Mahesh Palawat, Head of the forecasting team. 31st May-100mm , 1st June- 13mm, 2thJune- 5mm, 3thJune-5mm, 4thJune- Nil, 5thJune-Nil, 6thJune- Nil, 7thJune- 2mm, 8thJune- Nil, 9th June- Nil, 10th June- Nil, 11th June- 1mm, 12th June- Nil, 13th June- 0.1mm of rain, 14th June- traces of rainfall, 15th June- 0.5mm of rain, 16th June- 0.1mm While the cool and cloudy weather is keeping some happy, others are complaining and seem to be disappointed with dry and humid days. “I am travelling to Bangalore for work for the first time and I had heard a lot about the rainy weather of the city. My colleagues and I had also planned a monsoon trek and a trip to the Nandi Hills but it seems impossible to travel in this sultry and uneasy weather. “Yes the rains have been less and the figures look worrisome but according to us this is nothing unusual. We are keeping a close eye at the rainfall pattern in Bangalore and if it continues to not rain in the city, then that could be alarming”, informs Jatin Singh, CEO of Skymet Weather. Weather models indicate that the rain situation could get better in Bangalore after two to three days when the monsoon surge may reach the interiors of Karnataka. Currently monsoon is active over the west coast, of India where the monsoon rains have become moderate to heavy in intensity over many parts of Mumbai, Karnataka, Konkon, Goa and Kerala. “Last year Bangalore received approximately 2mm of rain from the 1st till the 12th of June, therefore the rainfall figures of this year are already way above of what they were last year. Besides, the monsoon rain figures also show that there has been excess rain (45%) in south interior Karnataka till now. “Also, many may not know, rainfall received in the month of June is only 18% of the total monsoon rainfall from June to September”, added Palawat. So the hope is not over yet as rainy days are ahead!!
