Kerala Weather Update: IMD Forecasts Moderate to Heavy Rainfall; Yellow Alert in 8 Districts

The Met department has announced a heavy rainfall in the coming  day and yellow alert has been issued in eight districts. As per the prediction, rainfall forecast issued by the Meteorological Centre Thiruvananthapuram, yellow alerts have been sounded for Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode districts. Other districts are likely to receive light to moderate rainfall.

A yellow alert signals the potential for heavy rainfall (64.5 mm to 115.5 mm) within 24 hours. This warning serves as a precaution to ensure public safety in rain-affected and vulnerable regions. The IMD forecasts isolated to scattered thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds (30-50 kmph) for the next 5 days in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal, Kerala & Mahe, Lakshadweep, and Interior Karnataka; for the next 4 days in Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam, Rayalaseema, and Telangana; and from May 7-9 in Coastal Karnataka, with lightning on May 10-11.

Isolated heavy rainfall is also expected in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal, and Kerala & Mahe for the next 7 days, and in South Interior Karnataka on May 7-8. On other hand Northwest India will experience isolated to scattered light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds (30-50 kmph) over Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, and Punjab on May 7; and over Uttar Pradesh and East Rajasthan on May 7. Uttarakhand is likely to experience thundersqualls (50-60 kmph gusting to 70 kmph) on May 8.

Another wet spell is expected with scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rain/snowfall with isolated thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds (40-50 kmph) over Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, and East Rajasthan from May 11-13; over East Uttar Pradesh on May 12-13; and West Uttar Pradesh on May 11.