Heavy rain likely in Chandigarh today

A day 0after 33-mm rainfall, Chandigarh received 2-mm showers on Monday, which kept the weather pleasant for a second consecutive day. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) today re-issued yellow alert for another spell of heavy rain coupled with thunderstorms at isolated places in Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday.

On Monday, the city received light rain between 8:30 am and 5:30 pm, which brought the maximum and minimum temperatures slightly down by 0.7 and 1.6 degrees, respectively, as compared to yesterday.

The day temperature in the city on Monday remained 32.3 degree Celsius, which was 0.7 degree less than yesterday and 1.5 degree below normal.

Similarly, the night temperature dipped to 26.9 degree Celsius, which was 1.6 degree below from previous night and 0.2 degree departure from normal.

Mohali recorded 32.2 degree Celsius maximum and 28.1 degree Celsius minimum temperature, which was 0.4 and 0.9 degree below from yesterday’s reading, respectively, to remain the least hot city in the tricity region.