Delhi may witness another high -intensity dust storm as Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday alerted the national Capital by predicting a thunderstorm with wind speed upto 107 km per hour.
With frequent high intensity storms in short span, the Meteorological (MeT) experts have raised their concerned over surface heating cause behind the gusty-dusty storms.
Met has alarmed city and highlighted storm of wind speed 107 km and 96 km per hour.
Incidentally, as per previous observations on past storms, the velocity of both winds were recorded 127 km per hour and 106 km, the first storm was hit many States including Delhi-NCR on May 2 while the second storm halted the national capital with wind speed 109 km per hour and claimed two deaths in Delhi.
Highlighting the current weather pattern in and around Delhi, the Met in its forecast mentioned that the Western disturbance as a trough lies over Pakistan and adjoining Afghanistan in middle tropospheric levels.
“It is likely to move eastwards during next 48 hours, MeT marked in graphics.
“A cyclonic circulation lies over central Pakistan and adjoining northwest Rajasthan and Punjab in lower levels. It is likely to weaken after 24 hours. The north-south trough runs from the above cyclonic circulation to north Madhya Maharashtra across southeast Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh at lower levels. It is likely to weaken gradually during next 48 hours,” MeT department mentioned.
Elaborating more, MeT highlighted that a cyclonic circulation lies over northern parts of West Bengal and neighbourhood in lower levels.It is likely to persist over the same region during next 24 hours and weaken thereafter gradually. There is a north-south wind discontinuity from Rayalaseema to south Tamilnadu in lower levels,” stated MeT Weather report.
Explaining weather and wind pattern , the Met highlighted that rain and thunder storm activities will be occurred at most places over Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Sikkim and Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura; at many places over Himachal Pradesh, Coastal & South Interior Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Kerala; at a few places Jammu & Kashmir, West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, East Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, North Interior Karnataka and Rayalaseema and at isolated places over Punjab, West Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Madhya Maharashtra, lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Meanwhile, weather expert said increase in surface temperature leads to heat wave days and more reasons for occurrence of dust storm and thunderstorms. “If the temperature increases then conditions become more favorable for the occurrence of dust storms and thunderstorms. In the coming years there could be more instances of intense thunderstorms and dust storms,” said a weather scientist.