The weather gods may be smiling on Kerala at least up to August 22, making the rescue operation in the flood- hit areas easier.
The district rainfall forecast for the next five days issued by the Met Centre here indicates that the rains are tapering off across the whole of the State from Sunday.
Isolated places in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode and Wayanad districts are likely to receive heavy rainfall on Sunday also, signalling an end to the current spell of rainfall driven by a depression in the Bay of Bengal.
Weather conditions are shown to be improving from Sunday to Wednesday with all 14 districts likely to receive light to moderate rainfall.
92% excess in Idukki
The cumulative rainfall chart for State of Kerala during the South West monsoon period from June 1 to August 18 shows an excess of 42.17%.
The State as a whole received 234.4 cm of rainfall during the period against a normal of 164.9 cm.
Idukki district topped the chart with a whopping 92% excess rainfall, followed by Palakkad with 74.55 and Kollam with 55.97.
Kasaragod is the only district to register a deficit of 10.97%.
The excess rainfall percentage in the other districts is as follows: Alappuzha- 31.56, Ernakulam- 48.41, Kannur- 11.57, Kottayam- 51.77, Kozhikode- 31.1, Malappuram- 51.87, Pathanamthitta- 46.77, Thiruvananthapuram- 46.97, Thrissur- 15.57 and Wayanad- 27.23.
