Long break monsoon period

26 July 2020

It's has been nearly 10 days since monsoon lost its charm in coastal Karnataka. This is peak ploughing and planting period for paddy cultivation and absence of rain is shivering farming community. The striking sun and humidity is not good sign. This is the time when the monsoon drenches region with moderate rainfall not hampering the nascent sapling. Now the water has to be pumped from passive sources such as wells or bore-well. MET department though has assured active spell of rain from today. Only nature can guarantee its truthfulness. But there is yet another trouble. The department is also forecasting above normal rains in August and September. This is the harvest period and more rains would obliterate the hard work. Only time will say if this mercurial pattern will come true.

Meanwhile, this break in monsoon is shooting downpours interior region. The capital city of Bangalore is also experiencing heavy rains amounting to 60mm and thus replenishing water table. The north interiors are bearing brunt of exceptional rains crossing 150mm mark in a day. The standing crops are being washed away by flash floods and thus destroying the hard work of farmers. The positive side is that the water containers are filling to maximum and thus relieving from drinking water issues. The Malnad region though is yet to see roaring monsoon session. There has been no instance of inflow to major reservoir crossed 15k cu-secs yet. The Ardra monsoon was disappointing. Hope we will have interesting monsoon season as we land into August. 

Sun entering Ardra star is considered to be period of intense monsoonal activity. This year it has been significantly disappointing and the trend of lousy run is continued in Pushya star as well

This image was taken in Bangalore but this is how also it looks in coast now where blue skies should have been elusive sight during this time

Hopefully the bleak phenomenon does not turn out to be permanent break monsoon period

What surprises during this period is the reverse cloud movement from East to west instead of South west. It feels like the monsoon renamed itself to north east monsoon.

Amidst lockdown, it feels even monsoon somewhere locked itself down away from mainland.