The South West Monsoon entered the state capital on Thursday. Met Department informed that the monsoon was weak and the rains were expected on occur on Friday.
Talking to “The Pioneer” JP Gupta said that the South West Monsoon entered the state capital on Thursday morning. “It is weak hence the city witnessed on rains on Thursday. The rains are likely to occur from Friday” he said.
Thursday was an extremely humid day with the city recording a maximum temperature of 39.9 degree celcius which was four degree celcius and the minimum temperature was 25.6 which was one degree above normal.
The local forecast for lucknow and neighbourhood is mainly clear becoming partly cloudy sky. Rain and thundershowers would occur in some area. The maximum and minimum temperature would be around 39 and 24 degree celcius respectively. The state forecast is that rain and thundershowers would occur at a few places over the state.
Across the districts the temperatures dipped with the Gorakhpur recording a maximum of 34.6 degree celcius, Varanasi recording 38.8 degree celcius, Bahraich 39 degree celcius and Allahabad 41.3 degree celcius, Sulatnpur recording 37.6 degree celcius and Fursatganj recording a maximum of 39.4 degree celcius.