Hot day ahead in Delhi, maximum temperature likely to settle at 39 degrees Celsius
India | Apr 03, 2022, 11:12 AM ISTIMD officials had said a prolonged dry spell has led to severe hot weather conditions in northwest India.
IMD officials had said a prolonged dry spell has led to severe hot weather conditions in northwest India.
An IMD official told that in the past 120 yrs, such a dry March month was only seen 12 times. The last time it was in 2018, when the city received no rain during the month of March in Delhi.
The maximum temperatures were above normal by 4.5 degrees over most parts of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, and Rajasthan.
Around 100 personnel of NDRF have been deployed and six relief camps opened in various parts of the islands as a precautionary measure, the officials said.
Fishermen have been advised to return from sea. Indian Army, Navy, Air Force and Indian Coast Guard on stand by.
The heatwave condition is likely to prevail at a few places in Narmadapuram, Ratlam, Shajapur, Khargone, Dhar, Khandwa, Damoh, Chhattarpur, and Rajgarh districts, for the next two days, the official said.
Once the system intensifies into a cyclone, it will be named Asani, which is a name suggested by Sri Lanka.low pressure area brewing over southwest Indian Ocean
The IMD also said Coastal Karnataka, Southwest Rajasthan and Gujarat region will also experience the heatwave.
The maximum temperature on Friday settled at 29.6 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal.
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre (NWFC), the wind confluence and a trough in easterlies run from southeast Arabian Sea off Kerala coast to Konkan coast in lower tropospheric levels.
Meanwhile, India Meteorological Department stated that a depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal lay centered at 8:30 am of Friday near 8.9 degrees of North/ 82.9 degrees of East about 390Km southeast of Nagappattinam (Tamil Nadu) is likely to intensify further into a deep depression during next twelve hours.
The IMD has warned of strong winds (45-55 km/hr gusting to an almost cyclonic 65 km/hr) over the south-west and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal and along and off the Tamil Nadu-South Andhra Pradesh coasts and the Gulf of Mannar on Thursday.
The formation of a Low Pressure Area over Southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea around Feb 28 will lead to enhanced rainfall activity over Andaman-Nicobar Islands on Sunday and Monday over Tamil Nadu-Puducherry-Karaikal during Mar 2-4.
IMD had earlier said that the first western disturbance will influence Delhi and NCR between February 25 and 26, bringing light rain.
Cold wave conditions will be seen in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Bihar in the next 24 hours, said the IMD.
IMD on Jan 31 said, North India, in the month of Feb, is likely to receive an average rainfall above normal i.e. more than 121 pc of the Long Period Average that is 65.3 mm, recorded between 1961-2010.
Apart from this, another Western Disturbance is likely to affect Western Himalayan Region from February 6, the IMD has said.
No significant change in minimum temperatures is very likely over east India during next 3 days and will fall by 2-4 degrees Celsius thereafter.
IMD predicted cold day to severe cold day conditions in isolated pockets over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh during the next two days.
Dense to very dense fog is predicted in parts of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Tripura over the next two to three days.
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