New Delhi: India’s weather department said Monday that heatwave conditions over most parts of the country were becoming less severe.
The India Meteorological Department predicted thunderstorms and gusty winds over northwest India till 4 May, over east and south peninsular India till 6 May and over northeast India till 3 May.
IMD senior scientist R.K. Jenamani said Monday that the heatwave was over in most parts of India including in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. He said: “Western disturbance is quite active. Temperatures will not rise for the next six to seven days. We have rung out a yellow alert over northwest India for thunderstorms. Delhi will also get rainfall on 3 May.”
There will be scattered to fairly widespread rainfall with isolated thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds (speed reaching 40 to 50 kilometres per hour) very likely over Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha during the next five days, the department said.
It added isolated, heavy rainfall over sub-Himalayan West Bengal-Sikkim on 2 May, over Arunachal Pradesh on 2 and 3 May and over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura during 2 to 4 May.
The Met department advised fishermen to stay indoors on 6 May as Andaman Sea adjoining east-central and southeast Bay of Bengal would see “squally wind (speed reaching 50-60 kmph gusting to 70 kmph)”.
Similar conditions would prevail on 4 and 5 May over South Andaman Sea and adjoining North Andaman Sea and east-central Bay of Bengal.
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