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oi-Madhuri Adnal
Bengaluru witnessed light rainfall accompanied by cloudy skies and chilly winds on Friday night. The sudden change in Bengaluru’s climate following the intermittent showers has introduced a respite for residents who’ve been reeling beneath excessive temperatures.
The Regional MeT Centre in Bengaluru had predicted partly cloudy sky with chance of growth of thunder and lightning within the metropolis over the following seven days until April 27.
The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) had additionally warned that thunderstorm with lightning accompanied by gusty winds velocity reaching 30-40 kmph are prone to have an effect on Bengaluru (city), Bengaluru (rural), Chikkamagaluru, Mysuru, Kolar, Ballari, Kodagu Hassan a and Belagavi districts through the subsequent three hours.
Source IMD: #Nowcast
TOI: 1500 IST
Thunderstorm with lightning & accompanied by gusty winds velocity reaching 30-40 kmph prone to have an effect on the next districts in subsequent 03 hours:
Bengaluru(city) Bengaluru(rural) chikkamagaluru Mysuru Kolar Ballari Kodagu Hassan & Belagavi pic.twitter.com/HisPyBDsgY— Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (@KarnatakaSNDMC) April 21, 2023
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s highway present was cancelled owing to downpour at Devanahalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru, BJP sources mentioned.
Shri @AmitShah ji landed in Bengaluru & was headed to the Devanhalli Roadshow.
However, heavy rains in that space had made the graduation of the highway present inconceivable. Inorder to not trigger inconvenience the karyakartas assembled, the state management has determined to postpone the… pic.twitter.com/6uHPGs1cLA
— BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) April 21, 2023
The former BJP chief, one of many occasion’s key ballot strategists and campaigners, arrived right here on a two-day go to to the state to marketing campaign forward of the May 10 Assembly elections within the state.
Shah was slated to carry a highway present at Devanahalli in Bengaluru Rural district nevertheless it needed to be referred to as off as a result of rains in and across the taluk headquarters city.
The occasion chief is scheduled to take inventory of the occasion’s ballot preparations throughout an interplay with senior occasion functionaries through the go to.
This is Shah’s first go to to the state after the ballot schedule was introduced on March 29.
On Saturday, he’s scheduled to attend an occasion organised by a personal information channel earlier than flying again to New Delhi.