Rains may remain for the next three days…
Rains may remain for the next three days, IMD has issued hail and storm alert too
According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), there is a possibility of heavy rain and hailstorm, lightning and strong winds from May 3 to next three days.
The capital Delhi and adjoining areas (Delhi Rains) in different parts of North India have been densely cloudy and raining since this morning. In fact, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has already given prediction of possibility of lightning and thunderstorms, heavy rain, lightning strikes and thunderstorms in all areas of western North India from May 3 to next three days. Winds (30-40 kmph) were expected to run. IMD has issued an orange alert for most parts of northwest India between 3 and 6 May. According to the Regional Weather Forecast Center Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and parts of Rajasthan, where thunderstorms, dust storms and dusty winds caused fresh and intense western disturbances.
Western disturbance will intensify, Kuldeep Srivastava, head of the regional weather forecasting center, Delhi had told, ‘Western disturbance will intensify, because low pressure area will be formed and moisture will be generated from Arabian Sea. Due to this, a cyclonic weather is likely to develop over West Rajasthan on the night of 3 May. Due to this, rains, thunderstorms, strong winds can run at a speed of 40 to 50 km per hour in the entire northwest region for the next three, four days. Also, there may be snowfall in the upper regions of the Western Himalayas. Meanwhile, the first cyclonic storm of this season, Anfan, is forming over the South Andaman sea. On Friday, a low pressure area formed over the South Andaman Sea and adjoining southeastern Bay of Bengal. IMD said in its Friday bulletin that its pace is expected to be slow and delayed. According to the bulletin, it is likely to remain in the same area during the next 48 hours. During the subsequent 48 hours, the storm will hit the Andaman Sea and adjoining southeastern Bay of Bengal and may intensify thereafter.
Hurricane will gradually increase speed and move towards north-northwest by 5 May The storm is likely to move slowly towards north-northwest by 5 May. Under its influence, heavy rains and thunderstorms are expected over the South Andaman Sea and the southeast Bay of Bengal and the Andaman-Nicobar Islands for the next more than five days. According to the weather bulletin, from 1 to 5 May, the sea situation over the South Andaman Sea and the southeastern Bay of Bengal will become very bad. The department has advised fishermen not to venture into the south-eastern Bay of Bengal in the South Andaman Sea on 1 May. It can reach the southeast Bay of Bengal on 2 and 3 May, and the Andaman Sea and the southeastern Bay of Bengal on 4 and 5 May.
