Severe weather activity over northwest India to continue for next two-three days: IMD

Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 4

The “severe weather activity” over the northwest is expected to recur for couple of more days, till Wednesday or Thursday, the IMD said on Monday.

It was not just the northwest, a vast expanse extending from the northwest to east and northeast India experienced “severe weather activity”—rains, thunderstorm accompanied with lightning, hail and squally winds with speed reaching 50-60 kmph on Sunday, due to more than one weather system at the same time.

According to the IMD, convergence of moist easterly winds and conducive upper level features resulted in weather conditions over the northwest (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) yesterday and similar weather is likely to continue over the region during the next three days.

Likewise, fairly widespread to widespread rain/thundershowers are also expected over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim over the next three to four days and also Odisha, gangetic West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand, it said.

Thunder squalls (50-60 kmph) and hailstorm at isolated places are likely during this period.

Isolated to scattered rain/thundershower are also expected over south peninsular India during next the four/five days while heat wave conditions will prevail over Vidarbha and Telangana.

Several factors are contributing to the weather situation over so many parts of the country.

A western disturbance, a trough in mid tropospheric westerlies, a  cyclonic circulation over northeast Bangladesh and  neighbourhood and  a cyclonic circulation over Haryana and neighbourhood.

There is an east-west trough extending from the cyclonic circulation over Haryana and neighbourhood to the cyclonic circulation over northeast Bangladesh and neighbourhood across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

A cyclonic circulation also persists over southeast Arabian Sea off the Kerala coast a trough/wind discontinuity from east Madhya Pradesh to south interior Tamil Nadu across east Vidarbha, Telangana and Rayalaseema.

The low pressure area over south Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal and associated cyclonic circulation persists.

It is very likely to persist meandering over south Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal during the next five days.

The system is under continuous watch by the IMD.