Dark clouds over Noida. (Express Photo: Sahil M Beg)
Dark clouds turned the skies grey and brought light rain in parts Delhi-NCR on Friday evening. While strong winds throughout the day had brought down the soaring temperatures across the national capital and its neighbouring areas, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted rains along with dust storm and thunderstorm.
The weather department on the other hand issued orange alert for Kerala’s Iddukki district just two-days ahead of the onset of monsoon in the state. Several districts in Kerala will receive heavy rainfall righ till the weekend. A yellow alert of isolated heavy rainfall has been sounded off in Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha on Friday. Following the alert by IMD of two developing depressions in the Arabian sea, the state government had banned all fishing activities in these waters.
Meanwhile, IMD, Pune on Thursday said that monsoon is likely to hit Maharashtra by June 8, almost eight days after touching Kerala. The pre-monsoon activities in Maharashtra is expected to start by May 30, ANI quoted Dr Anupam Kashyapi, IMD scientist, Pune as saying.
Mumbai is likely to emerge unscathed by the Arabian sea cyclone. Thundershowers are predicted from May 31. ( PTI Photo)
The meteorological department in Bengaluru said a thunderstorm accompanied with light to moderate spells of rain and strong winds reaching 30-40 kmph is likely to affect Bengaluru, Tumkuru, Ballari, Bidar and other districts in next three hours
This monsoon, Mumbai city will get its own Flood Warning System, which will be able to relay alerts of possible flood-prone areas anywhere between six to 48 hours in advance.
Every year, Mumbai receives very heavy rain within a short time, which usually brings the city to a halt. Urban flooding is common in the city from June to September, resulting in the crippling of traffic, railways and airlines. In a joint initiative between the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the warning system is expected to be deployed next month, as monsoon is set to enter the state by June 10. Read full story by Anjali Marar
Dark clouds gather in skies over Noida
Dark clouds turned the skies above grey while strong winds brought down the soaring temperatures across Delhi-NCR on Friday. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted light rains along with dust storm and thunderstorm in the national capital and its neighbouring cities by the evening.
Dust storm, thunderstorm and light rain accompanied by squally winds 60 kmph would occur over Delhi-NCR in the next two-three hours, Dr Kuldeep Srivastava, Head Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC), New Delhi, told ANI.
*The Southwest Monsoon has further advanced into some parts of southwest and southeast Arabian Sea and some more parts of Maldives-Comorin area. Conditions are becoming favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon into some more parts of south Arabian Sea, Maldives-Comorin area, southwest and southeast Bay of Bengal during next 48 hours.
*The Well Marked Low pressure area over Westcentral Arabian Sea with associated cyclonic circulation extending upto mid tropospheric levels persists. It is very likely to concentrate into a Depression over the same region during next 24 hours. and likely to intensify further thereafter. It is likely to move northwestwards across south Oman & east Yemen coasts during next 48 hours and then move west-southwestwards.
*Under the influence of a current Western Disturbance and an east-west trough in lower tropospheric levels, scattered to fairly wide spread rain/thunderstorm accompanied with lightning, hail & squall at isolated places likely to continue over Western Himalaya Region & adjoining plains during 3 days and reduce significant thereafter.
Kerala: India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues orange alert in Idukki district for today and tomorrow.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday announced that conditions are favourable in Kerala for the onset of the southwest monsoon on June 1. "A low-pressure area is likely to form over the southeast and adjoining east-central Arabian Sea from 31st May to 4th June 2020. In view of this, conditions are very likely to become favourable from 1st June 2020 for the onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala," the IMD stated in its bulletin.
Strong winds and rain on Thursday night brought respite to Chandigarh residents as the temperature dipped by over five degrees on Friday. As per India Meteorological Department (IMD), more rain is expected in the coming days. (Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
Natural calamities including storms and lightning strike claimed seven lives in different districts of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, officials said. Also, normal life was disrupted in Rewa district due to power outages.
The temperature in Delhi which was touching 48 degree celcius came down to 28.8 degrees on Friday it recieved light rain on Thursday.