Summer showers bring down soaring heat

Summer showers bring down soaring heat
Deccan Herald

The city will continue to receive rain for the next two to three-days according to Met department officials.

The rain showers that lashed on Friday might have come as a (rather pleasant) surprise for those in the City, but it has been ‘overdue for a while’, according to the Met department.

Dr A L Koppar, Director of the Department, explained to Deccan Herald, that these ‘convective rains’ are a seasonal feature that was slightly delayed this year. The driving force behind the thunderstorm activity, he said, is the steadily rising summer heat. This condition, however, is not enough. Moisture is needed. So is the winds that come from the Bay of Bengal, then the chances of rain become greater.

There is a third factor which serves as a ‘trigger’, said Dr Koppar.


And this time, it was apparently a small cyclonic movement high in the atmosphere that helped, by lifting the hot and moist air mass, which subsequently cooled down to precipitate as rain.

And how will the pattern proceed? The rains should continue for the first two or three days, suggested Dr Koppar, ‘then the heating cycle sets in for seven days, or eight, or ten.’ After which the cycle would repeat.

However, if some of the factors do not fit in comfortably, it would result in cases that usually get reported as ‘abnormal heat spells’, or ‘historic record temperatures’.