Following Bengaluru’s hottest August day in a decade on August 28, 2023, the city recorded the wettest day of the year on August 31 as moderate to heavy rainfall lashed the city on Thursday night.
The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) observatory in Bengaluru documented rainfall of 136.5 mm up until 8:30 a.m. on Friday, September 1. According to KSNDMC, the highest rainfall recorded was at Rajamahal Guttahalli, west zone.
The poor progress of the southwest monsoon has left people in Karnataka worried. From August 1 to 31 (until 8.30 pm), the India Meteorological Department (IMD’s) Bengaluru city observatory received only 12.6 mm of rainfall. In fact, during the last week of August, people in Bengaluru had been complaining about the sweltering heat in the city as mercury levels continued to go up. On August 28, the city recorded its hottest August day in a decade as the temperature touched 32.6°C, which was 4.5°C above normal.
