SOUTHWEST MONSOON ONSET DETAILS

Friends, appears like the legendary SOUTHWEST MONSOON would set in over Southern Most Kerala on 29th or 30th of May.

1) Somalia Jet stream showing a massive uptick in another 3-4 days. The classical curving surging winds across Indian Ocean and

RAINFALL DATA FROM UDUPI DISTRICT RECORDED YESTERDAY

Very widespread heavy rains recorded across Udupi District yesterday.

Many places getting > 100mm.

UDUPI :HEJAMADI (GP) topping with 187mm
UDUPI :THENKA(GP) next at 186mm

Note: This is quite rare. This kind of heavy rains

RAINFALL DATA FROM DAKSHINA KANNADA RECORDED YESTERDAY

Some very big numbers from MANGALORE, BANTWAL and PUTTUR taluks.

PADUPANAMBUR(GP) in MANGALORE records whopping 189mm

KILPADY(GP) in MANGALORE records 131mm

Note:
This is quite rare. This kind of heavy rains we get to

RAINFALL RECORDED FROM CHIKKAMAGALURU DISTRICT YESTERDAY

JAGAR(GP) in CHIKKAMAGALUR topped with 137mm

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RAINFALL DATA RECORDED FROM CHIKKABALLAPURA DISTRICT RECORDED YESTERDAY SHARED

Widespread rains across CHIKKABALLAPURA and GAURIBIDANUR recorded yesterday.

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RAINFALL DATA FROM BENGALURU URBAN FROM YESTERDAY

Bengaluru North getting widespread rains.

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SATURDAY FORECAST FOR KARNATAKA

The Arabian sea LPA has dissipated and the BOB LPA has moved away and turned in to a depression.
The seesaw setup that we witnessed since 19th May is obsolete now. As a result the widespread rains that Karnataka experienced in the last few days

RAINFALL NUMBERS FROM BALLARI SHARED FROM YESTERDAY:

Widespread showers across HARAPPANAHALLI taluk

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BENGALURU FORECAST FOR SATURDAY:

So finally the weekend is here :)

Lets check what's cooking on the weather front.
The wind speed at 2kms above surface has spiked to over 20knots. Quite difficult for any worthwhile TS to get generated with such high wind speed. But RH is good

🌧️ Rainfall Map from yesterday shared for BENGALURU

Parts of North, West and North West Bengaluru received light to moderate showers last evening.

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RAINFALL NUMBERS FOR BENGALURU RURAL FROM YESTEDAY SHARED

DODDABALLAPURA, DEVANAHALLI and NELAMANGALA received widespread showers last evening.

The toppers are:
DODDABALLAPURA HADONAHALLI :116.5mm DODDABALLAPURA HADRIPURA: 59mm DODDABALLAPURA KESTURU: 55.5mm

RAINFALL NUMBERS FROM LAST EVENING SHOWERS SHARED FOR BENGALURU:

LOCATION RAINFALL (mm)
Herohalli (Rrnagarzone) 31.5
Peenya Indl.Area (Dasarahallizone) 17
Chowdeshwari Ward (Yelahankazone) 16
Yelahanka-Ksndmc (Yelahankazone) 15
Bagalakunte (Dasarahallizone) 14.5

9.55 PM UPDATE: LONG TS CHAIN ACROSS NORTH AND SI KARNATAKA

Long TS across Kalaburagi-Ballari-Tumkuru districts.

Seems to be sliding SW.

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Wow, Hassan this evening.

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Current rainfall 🌧️ in Bengaluru:

Areas where it is drizzling 🌧️
- Cantonment area ↔️
- Rajajinagar ⬆️
- Malleswaram ↔️
- Sadashivanagar ↔️
- Seshadripuram ↔️
- Shivajinagar ↔️
- Vasanth Nagar ↔️
- CV Raman Nagar ↔️
- Whitefield ↔️
- Kalyan Nagar ↔️
- Peenya ↔️
- Bommasandra ↔️

Tumkur district showers

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Looks like precursor to the great year ahead for Cauvery Catchment areas!

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Wow. West Bengaluru Rain forest Bangalore Campus deluge.

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5.45 PM UPDATE: INTENSE TS NW OF BENGALURU

Intense TS to the NW of Bengaluru.
The 850 hpa steering is from NNW to SSE. High possibility of it impact West, NW , CBD and parts South Bengaluru.

If the TS can expand to North Bengaluru, then East would also get rains.

Lets see!

Current rainfall 🌧️ in Bengaluru:

Areas where it is raining 🌧️⛈️
- Nayandahalli ↔️

Areas where it is drizzling 🌧️
- Rajajinagar ↔️
- Malleswaram ↔️
- Hebbal ↔️
- Jalahalli ↔️
- Mathikere ↔️
- Peenya ↔️
- Yeshwanthpur ↔️
- Banashankari ↔️
- Basaveshwaranagar ↔️
- Kamakshipalya