The local Meteorological department has predicted light to moderate rains in parts of Punjab, Haryana and their joint capital Chandigarh on the counting day, May 16.
“light to moderate rain/thundershowers may occur at isolated places in Haryana and Punjab,” predicted MeT department.
Meanwhile, after being lashed by rainfall during the past few days, the maximum temperatures in Chandigarh and various parts of Punjab and Haryana hovered around a few notches below normal level.
Chandigarh recorded a maximum temperature of 34 degrees Celsius, five notches below normal and minimum temperature of 19.8 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal on Thursday.
The city has witnessed its rainiest May of the last ten years as it received 63.6 mm rainfall till Wednesday.
ludhiana in Punjab settled at a maximum of 34.3 degrees Celsius, five notches below normal. Amritsar and Patiala recorded respective maximum temperatures of 35.8 and 34.6 degrees Celsius.
In Haryana, Ambala recorded maximum temperature of 34.9 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal while Hisar recorded 36.2 degrees Celsius, four degrees below normal. Among other places, Bhiwani settled at maximum temperature of 32 degrees Celsius, Narnaul recorded 33.5 degrees Celsius and Karnal witnessed a maximum temperature of 35.2 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature recorded was 19.2 degrees in Amritsar, 20 degrees Celsius in Bhiwani and 21.9 degrees Celsius in Narnaul.
Himachal’s capital city Shimla recorded a maximum temperature of 23.4 degrees Celsius and minimum of
11.3 degrees, two notches below normal.