Less Rain Shower during Southwest Monsoon - Meteorological Department’s Prediction
This year, country will be facing less rainfall during southwest monsoon from June to September, predicted by the Meteorological department.
Trusting this prediction, many water experts and farmers have been in anxiety over the accessibility of the Cauvery water.
The monsoon records for nearly one-third of the State’s yearly rain shower of about 92 cm, which is noteworthy as the Cauvery’s yields in Karnataka and Kerala usually senses heavy rain through the season.
Due this Cauvery Water wrangles over Tribunal, in its final bid too, predetermined that Karnataka liberates to Tamil Nadu, during June to September, 134 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) out of the yearly quota of 192 tmcft.
Amid the reasons is a possibility enhancement of El Nino, patent by the inconsistent climb in the Pacific Ocean sea-facade temperature off Peru’s seashore.
Inspite of this, the specialist sense that it may be better to linger for the department’s concluding predict to be hand out in June, by when there may be lucidity across the grade of El Nino.
This forecast, will be caution to the government and the farmers to knob the on hand water resources cautiously, says S. Ranganathan, General Secretary of Cauvery Delta Farmers’ Welfare Association. Also government should discover more ways in controlling power flow for agricultural pump sets, he added.
