As temperatures fell across North India by 2-3 degrees Celsius, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has removed heatwave warning from most parts except for some parts of Uttar Pradesh. The IMD, in its latest forecast on Friday, said that heatwave conditions are likely in isolated pockets of West Uttar Pradesh June 21 to 24 and in Jammu division from June 23 to 25, and will abate thereafter.
The highest maximum temperature of 43.8°C was reported in Sirsa (Haryana) on Thursday while maximum temperatures were in the range of 40-42°C in many parts of West Rajasthan, south Uttar Pradesh and north Madhya Pradesh; in isolated pockets of Haryana-Delhi, East Rajasthan and Gujarat state.
Monsoon to Reach UP Soon
Meanwhile, the Southwest Monsoon is further progressing and is expected to reach parts of Bihar and East Uttar Pradesh during the next three to four days. The Southwest Monsoon further advanced into more parts of Maharashtra, remaining parts of Vidarbha, some parts of Madhya Pradesh, some more parts of Chhattisgarh & Odisha, some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, remaining parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and some parts of Jharkhand on Thursday.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls occurred on Thursday at isolated places over Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Bihar and West Madhya Pradesh. Heavy rainfall was also seen at isolated places over coastal and North Interior Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Odisha, Jharkhand and East Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.
Western Disturbance and Cyclonic Circulations to Bring Rains
The IMD has predicted moderate rains in parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi on Friday. IMD said that a Western Disturbance has been seen as a cyclonic circulation over Himachal Pradesh and neighbourhood in lower and middle tropospheric levels with a trough and an induced cyclonic circulation lies over northwest Uttar Pradesh in lower tropospheric levels.
“Under its influence; Isolated to scattered light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorm, lightning & gusty winds (30-40 kmph) very likely over Jammu-Kashmir, Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi today and Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan during the next five days,” the IMD forecast said.
A cyclonic circulation over northeast Assam and neighbourhood is also likely to bring widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds (30-40 kmph) over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal during the next five days.
A cyclonic circulation also lies over Bihar and adjoining East Uttar Pradesh in lower tropospheric levels and an east-west trough runs from northeast Rajasthan to Manipur in lower tropospheric levels. Under their influence, fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds (30-40 kmph) is likely over Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Andaman & Nicobar Islands during the next five days.
The IMD has also predicted heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand and East Uttar Pradesh during the next seven days under the influence of lower-level easterlies from Bay of Bengal.
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