Even though the weatherman has predicted that monsoon will officially arrive in the northern part of the country on Wednesday, the region may get respite from the sweltering heat earlier as the Met office has forecast light rain or thundershowers in the region on Tuesday owing to western disturbance over north Jammu & Kashmir. The northern plains of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and adjoining part of Haryana will get rain on Tuesday.
Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC), New Delhi of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that due to western disturbances, cyclonic circulation is over Central Pakistan and North Rajasthan and Punjab area. “A trough is also extending from this system Northwest Plains,” it further stated.
IMD in its weather forecast said that conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest-monsoon into remaining parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh during the next 48 hours.
“Rapid advancement of southwest monsoon is very likely into most parts of northwest India, including entire Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir during the next 4-5 days.” “This is due to northwest-movement of low pressure, which is currently located over northwest Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood and its likely interaction with approaching western disturbance,” Met stated further.
Under the influence of above system, weather is expected over northwest India and there will be widespread rainfall activity likely to occur over Jammu & Kashmir on June 28 and June 29. “Scattered to fairly wide spread rainfall activity likely to occur over Himachal Pradesh and East-Rajasthan on June 26. Fairly wide spread to widespread rainfall rainfall activity likely to occur over Uttarakhand from June 26 to June 29 and similar activity likely to occur over Himachal
Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh from June 27 to June29 and Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall activity over Rajasthan from June 26to June 29,” Met said.
Meanwhile, the national Capital on Monday witnessed partly cloudy skies in the morning with the minimum temperature settling at 30.4 degrees Celsius -- two degrees above normal. The humidity was on the higher side at 75 per cent at 8.30 am. The maximum temperature was recorded at 38 degrees Celsius, a weather official.
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