Winter showers likely; yellow alert for two districts on January 8

Parts of Kerala are apt to person wintertime showers for the adjacent 2 days, triggered by a upwind strategy implicit the Bay of Bengal.

According to a upwind bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) connected Wednesday, a slump implicit the southeast Bay of Bengal and the adjoining East Equatorial Indian Ocean is apt to intensify into a heavy slump during the adjacent 24 hours. It is apt to determination west-northwestwards initially towards southwest Bay of Bengal during adjacent 48 hours.

Although the strategy is moving towards Sri Lanka and southbound Tamil Nadu seashore implicit the southwest Bay of Bengal, the strategy is improbable to further summation spot aft the archetypal intensification into a heavy depression. However, the strategy whitethorn trigger dense rainfall successful parts of southbound Tamil Nadu and the Comorin portion owed to the effect of a trough from the system.

Isolated showers whitethorn besides spill implicit to Kerala, influenced by the system. Formation of cyclonic systems is uncommon successful the period of January, though unseasonal rainfall triggered by tiny systems whitethorn hap successful January astatine times. A yellowish alert has been issued for Idukki and Pathanamthitta connected Thursday informing of isolated dense rain.