Rains to continue till Thursday

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru:

India Meteorological Department (IMD) has disclosed that Bengaluru will continue to witness rains until Thursday. They added that 19 other districts in the State will be affected by the showers.

However, none of these districts have been issued alerts as of Tuesday. Bengaluru city, Bengaluru Rural, Chikkaballapur, Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada, Udupi, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Koppal, Raichur, Hassan, Chikkamagalur, Shivamogga, Kodagu, Mysuru, Mandya, Kolar, Ramnagar and Tumakuru are going to be affected, IMD said.

On Tuesday, there was no rainfall in Bengaluru urban area. Meanwhile, city limits experienced a minimum temperature 18.8 degrees Celsius.  Mercury soared to as high as 27 degrees. Moreover, on Monday, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) area received 13.8 mm of rain.

“Generally cloudy sky. Light rain very likely. Fog/ Mist very likely during early morning hours in some areas. Maximum and Minimum temperatures very likely to be around 27 and 18 Degree Celsius respectively,” an official IMD forecast of Bengaluru said. IMD said that a weather system was partly responsible for the rainfall.