Good rains at last

Monsoon almost there in Belgaum

The much awaited monsoon is on its way to Belgaum. Since the wee hours of the morning light drizzle and cool breeze is making town ready for the upcoming monsoon. It is still very over cast.  

The monsoon will hit the Goa cost by today and we could expect the monsoon hit town sometime in early next week or so.

The prediction this time has been of a good to average monsoon which eventually means a sigh of relief to the farmers of the area. 

Belgaum: Poor man’s hill station is no cooler

It’s hardly March in its first week and the temperatures are making high peaks. Today the max was 36 and min recorded was 20 degrees Celsius.

 See the weekly temperatures in March 2009

Mar-09	6-Mar	5-Mar	4-Mar	3-Mar	2-Mar	1-Mar
Max Deg C	36	36	35	36	36	35
Min Deg C	17	17	15	15	18	17

 

Monthly average temperatures of March 7, over the years.

Year	2008	2007	2006	2005
Max Deg C	35	33	33	32
Min Deg C	16	18	14	19

 The sales of Fans have increased said a local dealer. He said normally the demand is there from mid march or later but these enquiries started in late February only and we are doing good business in this first week. The same is the case with AC’s. The sale of ice cream is rising day by day and as soon as the exams get over all the ice cream dealers will be doing brisk business. 

Incase of ice cream this time in the city you can also taste Baskin Robbins at the Nucleus mall, elsewhere Aditya  ice cream is the latest new comer with easy availability almost all over, there are those old brands like Dinshaws and Amul also.

 The sale of eye glasses on the road side has also seen a rise. Juice centers, coconut vendors are doing brisk business as the temperature is rising day by day and there is no great relief. 

See the gradual increase in the temperatures. 

Average Monthly	Jan-09	Feb-09
Max Deg C	30	33
Min Deg C	22	24

Just compare the monthly averages in Jan and Feb. this year and we could be heading for a very hot summer ahead. In May we could even break some records. 

It is believed that after Holi if the rains come, they keep on coming in between till the monsoons. Let’s see Holi is a couple of days ahead and hope for the best.

See the forecast for the coming week, no sight of relief.

Monsoon on time in Belgaum

The much-awaited Monsoon is here, a day earlier Infact.
Yesterday morning at about nine am the first showers hit the city and to the pleasant surprise they were heavy giving you an idea of what is in store this season.

Later the whole day it was quite sunny & late in the evening the clouds started to gather again. Since this morning it’s raining, not very heavily tough. Temperature has fallen and now the heat wave is no more and the Belgaum cold will start its journey. The monsoon has come on time and this time the rains could be heavy to very heavy that what the met dept. has forecasted. So be prepared for bad roads, water logging and host of other problems.

But the best way to start is say “Welcome Monsoons”

I am Coming. Get all your Woolens out