Bengaluru, which witnessed incessant rainfall on Tuesday following the onset of northeast monsoon, is likely to experience moderate to heavy rainfall over the next three days.

CS Patil, scientist and director, India Meteorological Department (IMD), Bengaluru, said the city is very likely to experience moderate to heavy rainfall over the next three days.

“The southwest monsoon withdrew from Karnataka on October 15. At the same time, northeast monsoon rain activity has started over the southeastern peninsula today (Tuesday). A well-marked low-pressure area lies over the central part of the southern Bay of Bengal. It is likely to move towards northern Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining coast of southern Andhra Pradesh in the next 24 hours. Under the influence of this system, coastal areas of Karnataka and southern interior Karnataka are likely to experience widespread rainfall, while northern interior Karnataka is very likely to experience fairly widespread rainfall from October 15 to 18,” he said Patil.

“Bengaluru, Kolar, Chickballapur, Tumakuru, Ramanagara, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, Uttara Kannada, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru, Hassan, Kodagu, Dharward, Belagavi and Haveri districts are very likely to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall , for which yellow and orange alerts have been announced from October 15 to 17,” Mr. Patil said.

The IMD further said that the maximum and minimum temperatures in Bengaluru on Wednesday are very likely to be around 22 degrees Celsius and 20 degrees Celsius respectively.

The overnight rain continued into Tuesday morning and lasted until the evening.

According to the IMD, Bengaluru received 59.8 mm of rain, HAL airport received 80.1 mm of rain and Kempegowda International Airport received 4.2 mm of rain till 5.30 pm. on Tuesday.