Thursday, May 27, 2010

Monsoon keeps Kerala waiting

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The sun moved in and out of rainclouds over Kerala on a day of rain and sunshine on Wednesday.

Aluva received a heavy downpour of 14 cm during the 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday. Kanjirappally (8 cm), Kochi airport and Kottayam (7 cm each) also received heavy rainfall.

Several other centres spread across the length of the State received rainfall measuring between 4 cm and 1 cm on the gauge.

The rains have not penetrated beyond the midlands so far this week. There have been a few good spells of rainfall during the course of the week along the plains stretching towards the Palakkad gap and also very isolated downpours in the highlands of Idukki. The month of May so far has been 10 per cent deficient in rainfall in the catchments of Kerala State Electricity Boards hydroelectric projects.

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