The famed weather of Bengaluru is living up to its name this mon...
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The famed weather of Bengaluru is living up to its name this monsoon. A cloudy sky, short but recurrent spells of rainfall and the sun playing peekaboo on rare occasions — citizens are soaking it all in.Twitter is aflutter with posts on the cloudy and chilly weather.
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BENGALURU: The famed weather of Bengaluru is living up to its name this monsoon. A cloudy sky, short but recurrent spells of rainfall and the sun playing peekaboo on rare occasions — citizens are soaking it all in.
Twitter is aflutter with posts on the cloudy and chilly weather. From lack of motivation to do any work to finding it hard to dry their clothes, Bengalureans are churning out memes and jokes. “Is it only me or Bangalore does feel like Ooty at the moment?” reads a tweet by Vandana Sharma.
Karnataka State
Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (
KSNDMC
) had announced that parts of Bengaluru will experience rain and overcast sky till Saturday night. It predicted “generally cloudy sky with isolated very light to moderate rain in the city”.
As Bengaluru continues to receive intermittent drizzle for almost a week now, the weather has become a talking point for netizens, many of whom are blaming it for not getting any work done and even pitching it as a point of envy for other cities in the country which are humid and slightly hot at present.
Twitter user Shrinivassg said: “How-do-you-even-work-in-this-weather” season in Bangalore,” while
Rakshith S Ponnathpur
, a policy researcher, tweeted: “Dear Bangalore weather, can you suck for few hours a day so that we can all get some work done?”
Another Twitter user Shruthi shared several netizens’ thoughts: “Bengaluru people should have cosy weather holidays added with rest of leave policies!” Sathwik tweeted: “Bengaluru weather right now is like that one friend - “Aree bhai chal na, bad mein kar lena kaam (Hey bro, let us go, work later).”
Some argued the city’s weather was the best in the country. “Bengaluru has the best weather among the metropolitan cities in India. Change my mind!” Sachinn tweeted.
Dinesh Nair shared a picture of a hazy city horizon with the tweet: “I am confused. Am in Namma Bengaluru or in Manali? And it’s not overflowing (with tourists)! Kick-ass weather. Very hill station types! This is a really wonderful city to live in! The weather — can’t get that in any other part of India!” A user with the handle @BLRrocKS concurred with Nair. “Bengaluru weather is so awesome, this morning! Feels like a hill station. Enjoy Maadi!” he tweeted.
Netizens also shared memes celebrating the weather — from frozen TV characters to their own pictures in sweaters and socks.
However, not everyone was enthused. While some Bengalureans said they hated the gloomy weather, some felt it aggravated their allergies.
Shashi T, a techie, said she has been sneezing due to her allergies and suffering from a headache. “I know my opinion will raise eyebrows, but I am tired of this weather. Though I like the feel of it, it is scary during a pandemic to experience cough and sneezing,” she added.
Kirti Patnaik tweeted: “Unpopular opinion. I am sick of the cold and the rain in Bengaluru. I desperately want the sun.”