Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jun 17: The intensity of monsoon rains was markedly less on Thursday June 16, as rain and sunshine appeared one after the other. However, by night, the rain gathered momentum, and cloudy weather indicated likely onset of heavy rains.

After heavy rains soaked coastal Karnataka early morning on Friday, rains kept visiting the areas in these districts in between sunshine. Almost all the taluks of the twin-districts experienced the same weather.

A fallen wall of a house owned by Umavathi on Goods Shed Road in the city inflicted financial losses on the house owner.

After the meteorological department predicted heavy rains during the next two days in coastal districts as well as Kodagu and Shimoga, and warned of speeding gale sweeping the surface of the sea, the secretary in the state natural disaster management department alerted the district administrations to take precautionary measures and to be in readiness to face any unexpected eventualities. Control rooms have been asked to function to their full capacity, and the administrations have been asked to keep vigil on calamity-prone areas. The relief and rescue teams have been instructed to be in preparedness.

Gokarn registered 16 cms of rain while other places in the coast received between four and nine cms of rain.