New Delhi, The Western Disturbance over Jammu & Kashmir is following the predicted path and is expected to affect the northwest region during the next two days. The brewing low pressure area near the Andaman Sea in the Bay of Bengal has intensified and could become a well-marked low pressure area during the next 24 hours.
Yesterday's Western Disturbance over Pakistan and Afghanistan has arrived over Jammu and Kashmir and is expected to bring more snowfall during the next 48 hours. Rain or snow is likely at a few places in Jammu & Kashmir during the next 24 hours. More areas of Jammu & Kashmir would receive snowfall. One or two places could get heavy snowfall during this period.
Rain is also expected over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Snowfall is likely at a few places over Himachal Pradesh and at one or two places in Uttarakhand during the next 48 hours.
The Western Disturbance would also affect northwest plains as skies would become cloudy to partly cloudy over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and west Uttar Pradesh. One or two places in these areas could also experience rain or thundershowers during the next two days. Such weather conditions would help to increase the minimum temperatures.
But the severe cold weather could arrive to these parts after the exit of the Western Disturbance from the region after November 30. The cool winds from north would become colder as these winds would be coming in from areas where snowfall is expected to melt in 24 hours.
The minimum temperatures could fall by 2-3 degrees and the maximum temperature would also be slashed due to more sunshine and heat radiation as the sky will be mainly clear in the north. Fog is expected to increase after next two to three days over northern India.
Down in the Bay of Bengal near the Andaman Sea, the low pressure area that formed during the last 24 hours would intensify to become a well-marked low pressure zone during the next 24 hours. Under its influence, heavy rain is being expected in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands during the next 48 hours. In the southern Peninsula, the cyclonic circulation near south Tamil Nadu and Kerala continues to persist and will bring rain at one or two places during the next 24 hours.
