After a long, dry heat spell, parts of Karnataka witnessed rainfall on Wednesday evening. A recent notice issued by the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Center (KSNDMC) has stated that the rainfall is expected on Thursday as well.
As a result of trough and wind discontinuity, parts of south interior Karnataka will see light to moderate rain. The districts of Chamarajanagar, Mysuru, Mandya, Kodagu, Bengaluru urban, Bengaluru rural and Kolar along with the Western Ghats area of the Malnad districts are expected to see showers coming their way.
The KSNDMC has also noted that heavy rains and thunderstorms are likely in those districts on Thursday afternoon and may result in voting being affected.
After a long spell of heat, Bengaluru witnessed much-awaited showers in the first week of April. "These rains are because of thunderstorm activity. The rains generally do not sustain more than an hour or two. This is the first rain after a dry spell of about a month. This will bring much-needed relief to the city of Bengaluru which has been experiencing temperatures as high as 35 degree celsius. Parts of the city will receive as much as 20 mm of moderate rainfall," meteorologist Sunil Gavaskar from the KSNDMC stated to TNM, at the time.
He further mentioned that if temperatures remained high, more short rain spells could be expected.
The state is experiencing one of its hottest summer seasons, with temperatures up to 3 degrees more than is usually expected at this time of the year.
Voting for the Lok Sabha elections began in the state at 7 am on Thursday morning. Polling is taking place in the central and southern regions of the state with Udupi-Chikmagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga (SC), Tumkur, Mandya, Mysuru, Chamarajnagar (SC), Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru North, Bengaluru Central, Bengaluru South, Chikkaballapur and Kolar (SC) are the constituencies going to polls on Thursday. As of Thursday at 1 pm, voter turnout in the state is at 36.51 percent.