Dust storms, light showers and squalls at 60 kmph likely in Delhi-NCR today

Dust storms, thunderstorms accompanied by gentle rain and squalls at 60 kmph are prone to happen over Delhi and the National Capital Region within the subsequent 2-Three hours, Dr Kuldeep Srivastava, Head of the Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) mentioned on Friday.

The nationwide capital together with northern India has been reeling below a extreme warmth wave for the previous one week with temperatures crossing 47 levels Celsius for 5 consecutive days.

The IMD earlier within the week had issued an ‘orange’ warning for components of Delhi for a warmth wave. A ‘red’ warning is normally issued for a extreme warmth wave.

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Much of north, northwestern and central India together with Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, components of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have additionally been dealing with extreme warmth wave situations.

Isolated gentle showers on Thursday night in some components of Delhi and adjoining areas, nevertheless, introduced down the temperature by a few notches.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) too on Thursday predicted that the Delhi-NCR area is prone to witness very gentle rain and dirt storms on Friday until about 8:30 pm.

“Very light rain/thunderstorm/dust storms accompanied with gusty winds is the forecast for Delhi NCR till 8.30 pm,” the IMD had mentioned.

“The Southwest Monsoon has further advanced into some parts of Maldives-Comorin area, some more parts of south Bay of Bengal, remaining parts of the Andaman Sea and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Conditions are becoming favourable for further advance of the Southwest Monsoon into some more parts of Maldives-Comorin area during the next 48 hours,” the IMD mentioned in its All India Weather Forecast Bulletin.

In addition, the IMD mentioned Tripura and Mizoram are additionally very prone to witness heavy to very heavy rainfall through the subsequent 24 hours.