Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, May 15: Humidity and temperature is on the rise in the district of Dakshina Kannada (DK) after the rains that showered for some days have stopped.

On Saturday morning, heavy rains lashed the city for an hour. The temperature had come down to 30.8 deg C. However, on Sunday there was no rain in the entire district of Dakshina Kannada (DK). For the same reason, the temperature rose by five deg C and recorded 35 deg C.

According to the forecast by KSNDMC (Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre), there is no signs of heavy rains in the coastal region for the time being. Only slight drizzle is expected on Monday and Tuesday.

Though the pre-monsoon rains have reduced considerably in the coastal region compared to last year, monsoon is expected to shower as usual. According to the present forecast, monsoon is going to arrive in the coastal region in the first week of June. As the pre-monsoon rains were less, the officials of weather department say that the monsoon will have more amount of rains.

Coastal region is declared as red zone and the pre-monsoon rains were very less than usual. From March till date there is a shortfall of rain to the extent of 38% in DK, 53% in Udupi and 46% in Uttara Kannada. This is the highest recorded shortfall among the five geographical areas of Karnataka.