Bengaluru likely to receive light rainfall for next three days: IMD

A day after Bengaluru recorded its second-highest temperature for September (33.2°C), the city received a heavy downpour on Tuesday (September 15), recording 55.8 mm rainfall.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) attributed this extreme weather condition as a local phenomenon as other parts of the State, including coastal and north-interior Karnataka, received no rainfall on Tuesday.

“The weather conditions that we are witnessing in Bengaluru are due to a localised phenomenon. There has been local convectional activity due to strong surface heating and abundant moisture in the atmosphere,” said IMD scientist C.S. Patil.

On Monday (September 14), the Bengaluru city observatory recorded 33.2°C, which is the second-highest recorded temperature for September and the highest in the last 10 years. The all-time record for September is 33.3°C, which was recorded in 1951, and the previous highest in the last decade was 31.7°C, recorded in 2018.