Rain may play spoil sport
Bangalore, February 26: Those grumpy over not getting tickets to watch Sunday's India-England match at Chinnaswamy Stadium despite all the miseries they went through on Thursday, may draw some consolation from this. The weatherman has warned of a serious chance of heavy rainfall on Sunday washing out the India-England ICC World Cup match. Bangalore, in the last two days, has already set a record highest rainfall in the decade for the entire month of February.
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officials have said the city is likely to experience rain and thunder showers over the next 48 hours, which could pose the threat of washing out the India-England tie. This match has been much looked forward to and has witnessed much chaos and injuries over obtaining tickets over the last two days. IMD-Bangalore director B Puttanna said the February rains are part of a rare and unusual phenomenon and has attributed it to a low pressure belt from Lakshadweep to Vidarbha, across south interior Karnataka.
On February 21-22, the city experienced rainfall of 22.9mm, while on Friday heavy downpour for an hour between 5.30pm and 6.30pm brought 21mm of rain. The last record was set on February 26, 2000, when Bangalore recorded 25.8mm of rainfall. However, before that on February 22, 1901, the city recorded a yet-to-be-beaten February rain record of 67.3mm.
Bangalore, February 26: Those grumpy over not getting tickets to watch Sunday's India-England match at Chinnaswamy Stadium despite all the miseries they went through on Thursday, may draw some consolation from this. The weatherman has warned of a serious chance of heavy rainfall on Sunday washing out the India-England ICC World Cup match. Bangalore, in the last two days, has already set a record highest rainfall in the decade for the entire month of February.
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officials have said the city is likely to experience rain and thunder showers over the next 48 hours, which could pose the threat of washing out the India-England tie. This match has been much looked forward to and has witnessed much chaos and injuries over obtaining tickets over the last two days. IMD-Bangalore director B Puttanna said the February rains are part of a rare and unusual phenomenon and has attributed it to a low pressure belt from Lakshadweep to Vidarbha, across south interior Karnataka.
On February 21-22, the city experienced rainfall of 22.9mm, while on Friday heavy downpour for an hour between 5.30pm and 6.30pm brought 21mm of rain. The last record was set on February 26, 2000, when Bangalore recorded 25.8mm of rainfall. However, before that on February 22, 1901, the city recorded a yet-to-be-beaten February rain record of 67.3mm.
News Posted: 27 February, 2011
|
