An overcast sky over Bengaluru on Monday
It has certainly been a wet November for the city of Bengaluru. The wettest in 99 years, in fact.
The northeast monsoon hits the city at this time every year but rainfall has been unusually high this month, the Met Department says. It has already crossed the highest recorded rainfall for November -- 252 mm -- a measurement recorded way back in 1916, officials say. The rainfall recorded this November is 277.5 mm.
The Bengaluru sky has been gloomy and overcast for the last several days due to the low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal that caused heavy rains in four districts of northern Tamil Nadu, leading to floods and devastation.
In the last seven days, the city has seen only drizzle but no heavy rains. That is likely to continue till Wednesday, say Met officials.
Bengaluru has not been affected the way Chennai has but the rain tends to compound the city's traffic problems, with journeys of a few kilometres sometimes taking hours. The rains also left cricket lovers disappointed when last week's test match between Indian and South Africa at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in the city got washed out.