Squall hits power supply

CHANDIGARH, Oct 1: Heavy rain and high velocity winds lashed the City late last night. The wind clocked at 50 km/hour brought down telephone and electricity poles and uprooted trees in several localities.

The City recorded 22 mm of rainfall and the minimum temperature dropped to 20.8 degrees Celsius which is 3.6 degrees below normal. Officials of the Meteorological Department clarified that the rain last night was not part of the monsoon. The monsoon, they added, withdrew from the region on September 28.

According to the officials, the squall was the result of an upper air draft headed from north Pakistan to central Rajasthan. The forecast, however, states that while there is the possibility of some more rain, day and night temperatures are unlikely to vary much from what is normal for this time of the year.