Maximum temperatures hover below normal in Haryana, Punjab and Delhi

New Delhi, June 5

The maximum temperature in Haryana, Punjab and Delhi continued to hover below the normal limits on Friday.

The national capital witnessed more rains on Saturday which kept the mercury several notches below normal, the weather department said.

Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, which received rains in the evening, recorded a maximum temperature of 33.2 degrees Celsius, six notches below the normal, the meteorological department said.

In Haryana, Ambala’s maximum settled at 33.2 degrees Celsius, six notches below the normal, while Karnal recorded a high of 33 degrees Celsius, six degrees below the season’s average.

Hisar’s maximum settled at 37.1 degrees Celsius, five notches below the normal, while Narnaul registered a high of 34.8 degrees Celsius, eight notches below the normal.

Amritsar in Punjab recorded the maximum temperature at 35.8 degrees Celsius, down five notches against normal limits.

Ludhiana registered a maximum of 35.4 degrees Celsius, four degrees below the normal, while Patiala’s maximum settled at 34 degrees Celsius, six notches below normal limits, the MeT office said.

The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative figures for Delhi, recorded 1.2 mm rainfall.

The weather stations at Ayanagar and Lodhi Road gauged 21.7 mm and 0.6 mm precipitation.

Winds gusting up to 50 kilometres per hour swept across the city.             

Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the regional forecasting centre of the India Meteorological Department, said an active western disturbance affecting northwest India and moisture incursion due to Cyclone Nisarga led to rains.

He also said the region is not likely to witness a heat wave till June 15.

Cloudy weather and light rain is expected on the weekend too. The maximum temperature is expected to remain below the 40 degrees Celsius-mark till June 10, Srivastava said.

Thereafter, moisture-laden easterly winds due to probable low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal will bring rains in Delhi-NCR on June 12 and June 13, he said.

The MeT department said the minimum and maximum  temperatures will hover around 36 and 25 degrees Celsius in the city on Saturday. PTI

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