With two weather systems hovering over the Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department on Monday issued a heavy rainfall warning for South Kerala over the next two days.
The outlook signals a renewed phase of the North East monsoon after a lull. The weather inference issued by IMD indicates a trough of low at mean sea level over southeast Arabian sea and southwest Bay of Bengal.
According to the Met Centre here, heavy rainfall (7 to11 cm in 24 hours) is most likely to occur at one or two places in South Kerala till the morning of November 29.
Fishermen have been warned that strong winds from the westerly direction, speed occasionally reaching 45- 55 kmph are likely along and off the Kerala coast and over Lakshadweep area till Tuesday afternoon.
The weather forecast bulletin for South Kerala shows fairly widespread with isolated heavy rainfall upto Wednesday morning, followed by scattered rains over the next two days. For North Kerala, IMD has predicted isolated rainfall till Thursday and scattered rains for the two subsequent days.
Meanwhile, it rained at a few places in Kerala upto Monday morning, with Kollam reporting an isolated heavy rainfall of 7 cm.
According to the season’s rainfall chart from October 1 to November 22, the North East monsoon was normal in Kerala, with the State receiving 360.6 mm of rainfall against the normal of 423.9 mm. While Ernakulam, Kollam, Kottayam and Thiruvananthapuram districts registered normal rainfall, Palakkad recorded the highest deficit of 65%.
Pathanamthitta was the only district to register excess rainfall during the period (44%). All the other districts registered deficient rainfall.
Kerala had received normal rains during the South West monsoon period also.
