Bengaluru Rains | From Heat to Hail: What Triggered Bengaluru’s Extreme Weather Event

The recent hailstorm in Bengaluru is best understood not as an isolated anomaly, but as a byproduct of intensifying pre-monsoon weather dynamics interacting with rising heat across India. Meteorologists point to a classic chain reaction: days of above-normal temperatures created strong surface heating, which in turn triggered powerful upward air currents (convection).