According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, here are the weather alerts across the country issued on 3rd of May:
Weather alert for Kerala issued at 16:15 hours
Light to moderate rain and thundershowers at a few places are likely over Alappuzha, Idukki, Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Thiruvananthapuram districts of Kerala with strong average winds of 30 kmph gusting at 50 kmph during the next 2 to 4 hours.
Weather alert for Tamil Nadu issued at 16:09 hours
Light to good amounts of rain and thundershowers are likely at a few places over Ariyalur, Kanchipuram, Perambalur, Salem, Tiruchirappalli, Tiruvannamalai and Villupuram districts of Tamil Nadu with strong average winds of 40 kmph gusting at 70 kmph during the next 2 to 4 hours.
Weather alert for Odisha issued at 16:02 hours
Light to good amounts of rain and thundershowers are likely at a few places over Angul, Kendujhar and Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha with strong average winds of 40 kmph gusting at 70 kmph during the next 2 to 4 hours.
Weather alert for Jharkhand issued at 15:58 hours
Light to good amounts of rain and thundershowers are likely over Chaibasa, East Singhbhum and West Singbhum districts of Jharkhand with strong average winds of 50 kmph gusting at 80 kmph during the next 2 to 4 hours.
Weather alert for Meghalaya issued at 14:23 hours
Light to good amounts of rain and thundershowers at some places are likely over Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya with strong average winds of 50 kmph gusting at 70 kmph during the next 2 to 6 hours.
Weather alert for Andhra Pradesh issued at 14:19 hours
Light to good amounts of rain and thundershowers are likely over Hyderabad, Mahbubnagar and Rangareddy districts of Andhra Pradesh with strong average winds of 50 kmph gusting at 70 kmph during the next 2 to 6 hours.
According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, Ganganagar and Churu in Rajasthan continued to remain the hottest places in India for the third consecutive day on Friday. Banda replaced Allahabad in the third spot. Here are some of the other hottest places in India as on Friday and their forecast trend.
| Places | State | Maximum temperature on Friday (°C) | Forecast trend for Saturday |
| Ganganagar | Rajasthan | 45.5 | Drop |
| Churu | Rajasthan | 45.4 | Drop |
| Banda | Uttar Pradesh | 44.6 | Drop |
| Wardha | Maharashtra | 44.5 | Drop |
| Bramhapuri | Maharashtra | 44.2 | Drop |
| Agra | Uttar Pradesh | 43.8 | Drop |
| Jalgaon | Maharashtra | 43.6 | Drop |
| Amravati | Maharashtra | 43.6 | Drop |
| Nanded | Maharashtra | 43.5 | Drop |
| Nagpur | Maharashtra | 43.3 | Drop |
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As predicted by Skymet Meteorology Division in India few spells of thunderstorm, dust storm and rain under the influence of the Western Disturbance and its associated cyclonic circulation over Punjab and adjoining areas led to a marginal drop in the rising temperatures across North India.
Maximum temperatures, which touched 44°C in Punjab and Rajasthan on Thursday, showed a marginal drop but Ganganagar at 45.5°C and Churu at 45.4°C, still remained the hottest in the country.
The rising temperatures will get arrested for a while in Haryana. Maximum temperature dropped from 43°C on Thursday to 40.6°C in Karnal yesterday. Similarly in Hisar, maximum dropped from 45°C to 43.5°C
The feeble Western Disturbance as an upper air cyclonic circulation over north Pakistan will continue to bring light rain and thunderstorms in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, west Rajasthan and Delhi for the next 24 hours.
Weather in East India and Northeast
On Thursday, rain and thunderstorms occurred at several places in East and Northeast India. Jamshedpur in Jharkhand received 34 mm of rain while Krishnagar in West Bengal received 16.2 mm of rain. In Assam, Lumding received a whopping 202 mm of rain while Dibrugarh received 9.2 mm.
Light to good amounts of rain occurred today at few places in Chhattisgarh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura. Rain accompanied by squally winds will continue in Bihar, Bengal and Jharkhand for the next 24 hours but the intensity of rain is expected to decrease in Northeast India.
Meanwhile, Skymet satellite image shows the wind discontinuity extending from Bihar to Tamil Nadu across Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha, Marathwada and interior Karnataka persists.
Pre-monsoon showers will continue in South India but the intensity of rain will decrease south Odisha, Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, coastal Andhra Pradesh and south Tamil Nadu.
