According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, the weather in India will be extremely hot this week. Here’s a look:
North India – The maximum temperature in North India is expected to touch 40⁰C at many places, including Haryana, Rajasthan and some pockets of Delhi (for eg: Palam station). After dry and hot days, a circulation near Rajasthan may give some light thundershowers in Delhi, Haryana, parts of Punjab and east Rajasthan, by 3rd or 4th May. This weather system (cyclonic circulation) will only affect the weather in the northern plains. Up in the hills of Jammu and Kashmir the weather will be dry due to absence of a Western Disturbance.
East and Northeast India – While the weather in East India will be hot and dry this week, with no significant weather system affecting the region, the weather in Northeast India will be rainy for next couple of days. Widespread light rain in Northeast India will be due to a circulation of winds present near Sub-Himalayan West Bengal. Rain will increase gradually from the second half of the week. East India will see maximums soaring and settling in the early forties.
Central India – Weather in Central India, particularly in Vidarbha and Madhya Pradesh, will be the hottest in India this week. Maximums will exceed 43⁰C in many places. It could even touch 44⁰C in isolated pockets. Some of the hottest cities will be Malegaon, Nagpur, Akola and Jabalpur. However, towards the middle of the week a trough extending from Vidarbha to Kerala could give light isolated rainfall in M.P and Vidarbha. Gujarat and Odisha will remain dry throughout the week.
South India – Weather in South India will be rainy throughout the week. Rain and clouds will keep the maximums in the mid-thirties in most parts. Coastal regions of Kerala will receive more rain than south interior Karnataka, south Tamil Nadu and north coastal Andhra Pradesh. Rain would occur due to mix up of warm and humid winds with dry and hot land winds. Nights will be the warmest in this part of the country. Minimums will settle in the higher twenties. Anantpur, Kurnool and Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh could be the hottest places in South India, with maximums settling in the forties.
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The weather forecast by Skymet Meteorology Division in India suggests continuation of pre-monsoon rain in Kerala and some parts of interior Karnataka during the next two to three days. It also shows continuation of rain in Northeast India.
Skymet Satellite image locates a trough along the coast of Kerala that brings southwesterly moist winds to continue the rain in Kerala and Karnataka, while interiors of southern peninsula will experience rain at some places due to a wind discontinuity that could extend up to madhya Maharashtra.
A cyclonic circulation over Assam is going to bring some more rain in the northeast region during the next two days. Skymet Meteorology Division in India also indicates toward an increase in rain in the northeast region from mid-week onward as remnants of Western Disturbance will reach the region to continue the same wind pattern. At the moment winds are southwesterly, which is ;likley to remain the same due to the weather systems. This will bring good weather to the region that had been experiencing record-breaking temperatures last week.
In the past 24 hours almost all the weather stations including Dibrugarh, Passighat, Shilong, Cherrapunji, Imphal and Kohima witnessed some rain. It is observed that Pre- Monsoon deficit rains over Northeast India get invariably carried forward and quite often are indicative of below normal rainfall in the Southwest monsoon season. Year 2014 seems no different from the previous years. The post winter rains, so far, over the region remain highly deficit.
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Traces of rain in the last 24 hours could not bring any relief from the hot weather in Hyderabad. According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, light to very light rain, expected tomorrow may again fail to pull down the maximums in the city.
Heat wave like conditions (when maximums settle 5 to 6 degrees above normal, at 40⁰C or beyond) are being experienced in Hyderabad for over a week now. The maximum temperature recorded on Sunday in the city was 39⁰C, which is likely to settle around the same range for the next two days. Nights too are very warm, with minimums above normal by two to three degrees. The minimum temperature recorded in Hyderabad on Monday morning was 26.6⁰C.
“Andhra Pradesh is hotter than other parts of peninsular India. Anantpur, Kurnool and Tirupathi are the hottest cities in Andhra Pradesh. Maximums are consistently exceeding 40⁰C in most of the places of the state. On the other hand, Hyderabad is hotter than other metro cities of South India as it is both closer to the equator and to the Bengal of Bengal, from where it gets warm winds”, says G.P sharma, of Skymet Meteorology Division.
The normal maximum and minimum temperature for Hyderabad for the month of April are, 37.6⁰C and 24.1⁰C respectively. Whereas the normal rainfall figure for this month is 21 mm. However, so far Hyderabad has recorded only 12.4 mm of rain, with 8 mm of rain in a single day, on the 10th of April, and traces of rain on the 17th, 22nd , 24th and 28th of April.
“Shower expected in Hyderabad on Tuesday could be very light in nature. However, rain may be accompanied by strong winds blowing at a speed of 30 kmph in case of development of cumulonimbus or thunder clouds. High temperatures, apt for heating up the air, may further add to chances rain in Hyderabad”, says another meteorologist Mahesh Palawat.
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For the last three consecutive days, the Safdarjung Observatory in Delhi has been recording maximum temperature in excess of 38°C, while the other Observatory at Palam has already crossed the 40°C mark. Skymet weather forecast for Delhi suggests no let up in heat conditions in the national capital for the next two to three days.
According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, the dry and hot weather in Delhi will continue as the Western Disturbance over east Jammu & Kashmir has further moved eastward and has become insignificant for the northwest region from today. There is no chance of another Western Disturbance affecting the region for the next two to three days. Therefore, hot weather will continue to prevail due to more surface heating under clear sky. But one thing that will keep the temperature under check and provide relief from the hot weather is the northwesterly winds.
Skymet Meteorology Division in India explains that temperatures would have shot up to 40°C in northwest plains had the winds been blowing in a southwest or west direction from Rajasthan. However, they are blowing from the Himalayan region due to which the maximum temperature is expected to remain in the higher thirties, which is still better than Central and East India, where maximums are settling in early forties. Delhi recorded a maximum of 38.3°C on Sunday, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 21.5°C on Monday.
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