{"id":4464,"date":"2011-02-23T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2011-02-23T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T03:30:00","slug":"summer-rains-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4464","title":{"rendered":"Summer rains in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lpFv_4IKc1k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday it rained heavily for more than two hours. Started from 0600PM and lasted till 0830 PM.<\/p>\n<p>There is a saying in Malayalam &#8221; Kumbha mazhayil kathirum pookam &#8221; &#8211; that anything will sprout during the summer rains in the sidereal months of Aquarius.<\/p>\n<p>Temperature may rise to more than 40 degrees in the sidereal months of Aquarius ( Kumbha ) and Pisces ( Meena ).<\/p>\n<p>Kerala receives more than 400 mm rains during the summer. This comes as a big relief from the blistering heat. And when Kala Varsha ( South East Monsoon ) comes, people welcome it as a merciful release, even though it can wreak havoc on the &#8220;rural infrastructure&#8221; !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it rained heavily for more than two hours. Started from 0600PM and lasted till 0830 PM. There is a saying in Malayalam &#8221; Kumbha mazhayil kathirum pookam &#8221; &#8211; that anything will sprout during the summer rains in the sidereal months of Aquarius. Temperature may rise to more than 40 degrees in the sidereal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer rains in Kerala&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}