Karnataka: Yellow alert along coast today; Bengaluru to get rain for four days

MANGALURU: Heavy and steady showers accompanied by thunder and lightning saw three flights being diverted to Hubballi, Cochin and Coimbatore from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA), on Monday.
The IMD has issued a yellow alert for the coast on Tuesday, orange for Wednesday and red for Thursday, indicating heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places over all coastal districts.
Though the entire day was cloudy, with an occasional drizzle, the skies opened up at 5pm with heavy showers.
This saw the Muscat- Bengaluru - Mangaluru flight diverted to Cochin after it took off from Kempegowda International Airport and the Bengaluru- Mangaluru flight being diverted to Coimbatore.
Another flight from Hubballi to Mangaluru was diverted back to the initial start point after visibility deteriorated due to rains. All these flights were scheduled to land between 4.45pm and 6pm.