AGRI-BUSINESS: Showers likely for South from March 2nd week.

from BUSINESS LINE, February 28, 2009 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 27 - International weather models see summer showers wading their way into south extreme peninsula from the second week of March as convective activity advances in from the east Indian Ocean.

This comes on the back of forecasts suggesting that March-April-May might witness rainfall in this region, after January-February drew a near blank.

For now, the expectation is that an active South Pacific Convergence Zone (or that portion of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone or ITCZ, located south of Equator following the Sun's movement) would touch off a fresh churn in the warm waters of the Equatorial and …