

The waterlogging at the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) junction pressed airport authorities to redirect traffic. As many as 11 departing flights were delayed due to weather conditions. Bengaluru airport, which received 178.3 mm of rain on Monday, has now come to a standstill as areas near the pick-up and drop points are flooded. This makes hail.Also Read | IMD puts Bengaluru on yellow alert, several parts of Karnataka to witness heavy rains in coming days What difficulties did passengers at the airport face?Ī weatherman at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said since the launch of the observatory at the international airport in 2011, the highest rainfall was recorded on October 11. So the pellets stay in the cloud and keep growing until they finally get too heavy for the wind to hold up.

Sometimes it's not warm enough for the snow to melt completely, and you get rain and snow mixed. If the temperature gets warmer on the way to the ground and ends up above freezing, it melts and forms rain.If the temperature is below freezing all the way to the ground, nothing happens, and it just lands as snow.

The process by which this happens is fairly complicated it's called the Bergeron process.Īs the snow comes down from the cloud, a bunch of different things can happen to it: In cold clouds, precipitation forms as snow.
