Cyclone Kyarr Has Proved Helpful to Dakshina Kannada: Want to Know How? Then Click Here

October 30: Cyclone Kyarr has resulted in heavy rainfall accompanied with lightening and thunder in Dakshina Kannada District. This rainfall in October has helped Dakshina Kannada district to get normal average rainfall from January to October.
Though the district had received heavy rain coupled with flash flood in the month of August, till October 20, the district had not experienced the normal average rainfall from January to October. The normal average rainfall from January to October is 3,806.2 mm. However, till October 19, the district had received an average of 3,792.1 mm of rainfall.
This year rain was delayed by a month. The district average rainfall by the end of July should have been 2,393.2 mm but it had received only 1,408 mm. By August end, the average rain should have been 3,249.6 mm but the district had received only 2,868.6 mm. The intermittent rain in the months of September and October helped the region.
Due to lack of rainfall in the month of September and October, the grassland in Western Ghats had dried untimely in the month of November last year. Even water-level in River Nethravathi had receded drastically. The experts feel that rainfall in the month of October might help to retain groundwater table this year.