People of the city beautiful and its surrounding areas witnessed pleasant morning on Saturday followed by showers which continued till afternoon. Soon dust storm accompanied by light rains hit the city making the weather unpredictable. It nevertheless gave relief to the people from the scorching heat. The MeT department said the region will see partly cloudy Weather with possibility of occasional development of isolated thundercloud and light rain during next 48 hrs which will increase in spatial distribution afterwards.
The department on Saturday recorded light rain and thunder showers in the region, which made the weather pleasant amid hot previous days. The maximum temperature was recorded at 32 degree Celsius followed by the minimum at 28 degree Celsius on Saturday. Due to untimely rains, since the month of March the temperature during nights in the subsequent months including May and first week of June remained at an average 24 degree Celsius, which provided relief to the public a lot in this summer. Surinder Pal, director of Chandigarh Meteorology department said since the month of March we have 27 western disturbances, which remained on Saturday and it would continue for coming 48 hours in the region.