It has been more than 6 months since we visited the Rachenahalli lake 2kms away from our house. This pandemic is aggravating every day. It seems like the peak is yet to be reached before the dust settles. The pandemic is confining us indoors even though there is yearning to freely roam to experience the beauty of monsoon. Today while rummaging through my hard drive, I found these beautiful pictures of sunset from Rachenahalli lake caught somewhere around summer of 2019. I deeply regret underestimating those days. I was under the impression like "Yet another sunset". This attitude is rebuking now. It is difficult to move out of home. These experiences, be it small, be it nearby, we should cherish always, we should value always. Who knows, what locks us in future? Enjoy the scenic views now
On June 4th, IMD officially declared onset of South West monsoon 2020 over coastal Karnataka. We can also sense the onset by the free flow of clouds from SW direction towards mainland. The monsoon is yet to gain momentum though. Thanks to out of blue cyclones, the monsoonal pattern fleetingly getting distracted and thus hindering the normal advancement. We still have sunny skies at native which is unusual at this point of time. MET department are hopeful of accelerated monsoon spell from 9th June.
Meanwhile, I am enjoying the terrace from my rented apartment. The sky raisers are threatening to obstruct the views permanently. I don't have control over the ever growing concrete pinnacles. Till the last drop, I will enjoy the elevated view and grab some timelapse.
During my casual stroll atop terrace, I catch these magnificent thick monsoon clouds. These are assorted pictures photographed in a week of time during our evening terrace visit. It rains in city area sometimes and sometimes over head. Consequently, sometimes we can only experience thick clouds with occasional thunder and cold winds. Somehow these nimbus clouds lure me to grab pictures in burst. I cannot resist that temptations. Many times, that impatience leads to illegible pictures which I repent once i download it to my desktop. This time, it did not happen even though emotions were high. I clicked pictures absorbing the beauty of monsoon and enjoyed the distant storm whenever possible.
Cyclones are persistently haunting India monsoon season. After amphan, its turn of Nisarga over Arabian sea waters. The warming up of ocean is major concern for the onset of monsoon. They inspire cyclones and thus hampering the smooth onset of monsoon winds. The Nisarga also doing the same damage by disrupting the normal monsoon pattern. Consequently, the coastal Karnataka is yet to see their first monsoon rains. The MET department has announced the delay of monsoon rains making into mainland of coastal Karnataka but at the same time assured that monsoon would be normal. Hopefully it turns out be true.
Meanwhile, the Bangalore skies have been seeing cloud activity and mild wind but no rains from past 4 days. Today, during our casual stroll in apartment terrace, a huge band of clouds moved over our head and showering the region for 10 mins. The cloud formation was beautiful and rains were ad-hoc. I term it as ad-hoc rains since the cloud cover was not vast. Probably, the clouds were abundant with moisture. We covered ourself beneath the overhead tank platform which gave us maximum protection.
I was in no mood to return home. It was sure that rains would not last long and post rains something interesting would pop-up. My prediction did come true fortunately. There was full rainbow as well as distant isolated storm. My mobile camera was busy capturing the wonders of nature and I was busy enjoying the natural phenomenon. The kids too enjoyed in rain water. The photos were captured during the glorious day and I was enthralled post capturing the scenes. Looks like these will last spells of pre-monsoon rains and we look forward for welcoming the monsoon clouds sooner. Till then enjoy the nature glimpses caught on the fortunate day.
A lush blue sky to begin with
The clouds are almost over our head
A nascent rainbow post rains
As sun appears again, the brightness of rainbow amplified
A distant isolated storm and its close up look
Finally, the picture after atmosphere cooled off along with smiling moon
Good news is that, MET department finally declared outset of monsoon in coastal Karnataka. However, the rains are yet to gain intensity. We may need to wait further for strengthening of monsoon clouds over arabian sea. Hopefully, the monsoon will soon get over from the side-effect of Cyclone NISARGA and shower happiness on people of farming community.
Here is a collection of Pre-Monsoon 2020 timelapse. The shots were predominantly taken in Bangalore with contributions from my village near Udupi and in-laws village near Kundapura
As planned, we landed in Bangalore after fantastic stay in native for more than 2 months. As posted earlier, there were numerous reasons to leave native and travel back to city. One of the sad part returning was missing monsoon season. That sadness though still persisting.
The skies of Bangalore are not disappointing though. The evening skies are covered with thick pre monsoon clouds resulting in shower every day. Yesterday we witnessed torrential rains never seen before in my stay in Bangalore. The rains lasted for nearly 75 minutes and measured nearly 70mm in rain gauge. Probably we can term it as cloudburst. The winds, thunder was ferocious matching the intensity of rain. I was elated by watching such energetic rains.
The next day, we stepped towards apartment terrace to view the vividity of skies. On one side we had glittering sunset and on the other, dark pre monsoon clouds. It was beautiful contrast to witness. I caught these scenes both in timelapse and still photos. I have good collection of pre monsoon cloud timelapse which I will post once met department officially declares onset of monsoon in our state. Hope you enjoy the pictures and ferocious rain video.
Here is the video of the aforementioned ferocious rains
These pictures were snapped last year during festival times at Udupi Krishna Matha. The pictures looked normal those days but special nowadays primarily due to Corona crisis. It has been months since we saw the lord krishna and sought blessings. The religious location is still not open for public owing to burst in corona cases. It seems like even Lord is not happy with human race and wants to face the fallout of human greed. Krishna was the one who lectured people stating every living being has a soul. But humans are becoming greedy due to their intelligence. May be lord also wants us to be aware of this fact and tone down our wants.
Let those freedom filled days be back again. Now these pictures look precious. Even though the lord lies in our hearts, there is divinity when you visit his place. There can be no replacement for that. We pray lord to allow us to seek his blessings sooner.
And finally, obeisance to Lord Ananteshwara to break the shackles of pandemic
