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Monsoon active across the State

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The southwest monsoon has covered the whole of Kerala, with the northern limit of its trough advancing to Mangalore beyond the State’s border, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) has said.

Rainfall activity, which was intense mainly in south and central Kerala since the onset of the monsoon over the State on Saturday, spread by degrees to north Kerala by Sunday evening to cover the whole State by Monday morning.

Heavy rainfall of 9 cm was recorded during the 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m. on Monday at Enamakkal in Thrissur district and Cherthala and Chengannur in Alappuzha district. Mavelikara and Haripad in Alappuzha district recorded 8 cm of rainfall each and Varkala in Thiruvananthapuram district and Kozhikode airport 7 cm each.

Several other places in the State also received good rainfall - between 6 cm and 3 cm, the IMD monsoon update said on Monday.

The catchments of the major hydroelectric reservoirs of the State in Idukki and Pathanamthitta too have been receiving rainfall during the past five days, though not on an intense scale, M.D. Ramachandran, Director of the Meteorology Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, said.

Rain or thundershower is likely to occur at most places in the State in the next couple of days.

However, heavy rainfall is expected only in isolated pockets close to the coast.

The cyclonic storm ‘Aila,’ which had taken shape in the Bay of Bengal to spur rainfall activity in Kerala, crossed the West Bengal coast on Monday afternoon. On landfall, the storm is set to lose steam quickly.

The impact in Kerala will be in the form of a gradual weakening of the present spell of rainfall activity over the next two or three days, Mr. Ramachandran said.

Wind speed that had touched 60 km per hour on occasions along the coast of south Kerala on Sunday owing to the pull of the cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal fell to the level of around 45 km per hour on Monday.

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