Final spells of pre-monsoon rains

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