Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Massive Rains in Karnataka (Drought to Floods within 3 days)

The monsoon that played traunt for more than a year is in full vigour in western Karnataka reviving the lost hopes of people. The Malnad belt of the state from Belgaum district to Kodagu and coastal areas received heavy rains. Karnataka as a state recording a whopping 175% surplus across the four geographical regions in the last 24-hours ending 8.30am today. Malnad and coastal parts including Dakshina Kannada bore the brunt recording 360% and 152% departure respectively from normal weighted average while south-interior and north-interior Karnataka received 86% and 34% surplus rainfall.

24 hrs Rainfall Figures

Some of the 24hrs rainfall in mm ending 8.30 am on 07.08.2012 are as follows

Karauru  - 337
Indabettu - 308

Mastikatte  - 265
Yadur - 238
Hulikal - 235
Kammardi - 229
Mani  - 228 
Nilkund 225
Nariyandada - 222
Thirthahalli - 210
Umbalamani - 203
Devanahalli - 203
Bandal - 203
Kollur - 201
Kalasa - 200
Kalasa - 197
Sringeri - 196
Meguda - 196
Hebri - 190
Perdur- 190
Siddapura -  187 
Subramanya  - 187
Vanagur - 187
Dharmasthala  - 180 
Hosanagara - 180
Jayapura - 180
Koppa - 180 
Talaguppa - 170
Agumbe - 172

Other Massive Rainfall Figures

Some of the other massive rainfall stats in past two days are as follows as on 8.30 am on 06.08.2012 -

Birunani - 559 mm
Parakatageri - 508 mm
Teralu - 305 - mm 
 
Further, Nagara recorded 746 mm rainfall in 48 hrs ending 05.08.2012 
 
Bisile, Kempuhole, Moorukannugudda, Kenchanakumari and the Bajemane reserve forest received 600 mm of rainfall in the 36 hours ending 05.08.2012
 
Dam Levels 

Linganamakki reservoir has reached 1,779 feet against the maximum level of 1,819 feet
Kabini stood at 2,277.35 feet as against the maximum of 2,284 feet.
Harangi reservoir reached 2,856.79 feet against the full level of 2,859 feet
Bhadra reservoir too increased to 150.50 tmc ft  against maximum of 186 feet

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice work.

kjkj said...

Nice work pradeep. any idea if kodachadri mountains have also recd high rains till now ? and what is the prediction till aug end for this area ?

Pradeep said...

kodachadri mountains which has a annual rainfall of 7000 mm is located near Kollur so it would be + or - 10% of the kollur figure