The residents of Chandigarh woke up to a cool morning on Wednesday as the city received 9 mm rain overnight. light to moderate rains again lashed Chandigarh and parts of Haryana and Punjab in last 24 hours leading to a sharp drop in temperature levels.
Chandigarh recorded a maximum temperature of 32 degree Celsius, seven notches below normal and minimum temperature of 17.8 degree Celsius, five degrees below normal on Wednesday.
The city has witnessed its rainiest May of the last ten years as it received 63.6 mm rainfall till Wednesday morning during this month. Earlier, Chandigarh had recorded 58.6 mm rainfall in May 2004. The all time record rainfall in the month of May is 130.7 mm recorded in 1971.
Meanwhile, heavy to moderate rainfall was recorded in Ambala, Bhiwani, Hissar, Karnal, Panchkula, Narnaul in Haryana and Mohali, Amritsar, ludhiana, Patiala among other places in Punjab.
After rainfall across the region, the maximum temperature levels have plunged by up to eight degrees below normal while minimum temperature levels were dropped by up to seven notches below normal at several places.
Himachal’s capital city Shimla recorded a maximum temperature of 21.8 degree Celsius, one degree below normal and minimum of 8.2 degrees, five notches below normal. Shimla recorded 17.6 mm rainfall in last 24 hours. Among other places, Una recorded a maximum temperature of 32.4 degrees Celsius followed by Sunder Nagar at 29.3 degree Celsius and Kangra at 29 degrees Celsius.
The Met Department has forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers at isolated places during next 24 hours in Punjab and Haryana. A warning of thunder squalls with wind speed exceeding 30 to 45 km per hour at isolated places in both the states during next 48 hours has also been issued by Met Department. The department has also predicted rains on May 17 in various parts of the region and weather would be mainly dry in Haryana and Punjab thereafter.