Kalamassery, Kerala: Kerala has been witnessing a significant rise in the frequency of convective storms during May, ahead of the southwest monsoon, and the border areas of Idukki and Kottayam have emerged as hotspots for lightning impacts, according to a study by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT).

The study, conducted by Dr. S. Abhilash, Director of the Advanced Centre for Atmospheric Radar Research at CUSAT, along with E.K. Krishnakumar, C.S. Abhiram Nirmal, and Prabhat H. Kurup, has been published in the science magazine Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk. Titled ‘Identifying the hotspot regions of emerging triple risk due to pre-monsoon convective storms over Kerala’, the research warns that conditions in southern Kerala

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