Showers bring respite from hot weather conditions in Chandigarh tricity

Light showers during the morning hours and medium rain in the evening brought some respite from the sweltering hot weather conditions in the tricity on Wednesday.

Even as the orange and yellow alerts issued for the past three days had gone wrong, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today re-issued yellow alert for heavy rain coupled with thunderstorms and lightning at isolated places in Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana on Thursday.

Following the light rain (1.8mm in Chandigarh, 2mm in Mohali and Panchkula from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm), coupled with overcast sky during the day, tricity residents got some relief from the humid weather conditions but the relative humidity remained 88%. The day and night temperatures in the tricity region also remained almost the same as on Tuesday with a minor dip of 0.8 degree in maximum but 0.5 degree rise in minimum readings during the past 24 hours.

Chandigarh recorded a maximum of 34.3°C and minimum of 27.1°C on Wednesday, which was 0.8 and 0.5 degrees below and above Tuesday’s mercury and below normal by 0.1 and above normal by 0.5 degrees, respectively.

The weathermen have predicted a partly cloudy sky with thunderstorms and rain in the tricity for till July 14.