Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Reporter TV, an Indian Malayalam-language news channel offered to provide 150 acres (61 hectares) of land for a new township. [158] The Kerala State Electricity Board pledged to supply free electricity to consumers in disaster-hit areas for six months, The board also exempted outstanding amounts in disaster-hit areas. [ 159 ]
Kerala's rains are mostly the result of seasonal monsoons. As a result, Kerala averages some 120–140 rainy days per year. In summer, most of Kerala is prone to gale-force winds, storm surges, and torrential downpours accompanying dangerous cyclones coming in off the Indian Ocean. Kerala's average maximum daily temperature is around 37 °C ...
As of September 4, 2024 Gujarat had received 118% of the season's monsoon rainfall, causing flooding, destruction of infrastructure and crops with at least 20.000 people relocating. [17] On September 26, 46 people, including 37 children, drowned during Hindu festival rituals in flooded bodies of water and rivers. [18]
Heavy monsoon rains and floods have killed at least 33 people in southern India and five children in Pakistan over the past two days, authorities said Tuesday. In India's Andhra Pradesh and ...
Kerala is located in the south-west of India and has a tropical climate with high annual rainfall caused by monsoon rain patterns. The majority of its annual rainfall (~80%) occurs during the Southwest Summer Monsoon where warm winds from the Arabian sea cause cloud precipitation over the Western Ghats mountain range. [ 6 ]
A monsoon (/ m ɒ n ˈ s uː n /) is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation [1] but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
Rainfall from the southwest monsoon was 23% higher than normal in Kerala in 2018, with August seeing rainfall 96% above normal. [19] On the evening of 8 August, Kerala received heavy rainfall which was 116% more than usual [clarification needed], resulting in dams filling to their maximum capacities. In the proceeding 48 hours, the state ...
Kerala received 3,368 mm of rain during the monsoon season (June to September), 64 percent higher than normal and is the highest recorded rainfall. [1] The flood was probably caused by offshore vortices along the west coast and perturbations higher up in the troposphere and is not attributed to any depression or cyclonic disturbance in the ...