The easterly wind flow persisting over the region has increased the moisture content. The available moisture in the air is combining with the high temperatures to bring dust storm activities. In fact, whenever day temperatures reach higher thirties during late afternoon and evening hours in the pre-Monsoon season, it induces convective cloud formation known as cumulonimbus clouds.
At around 4 pm on Wednesday afternoon Skymet Weather tweeted:
#WeatherAlert #DelhiNCR Light #Rain & #thundershowers likely over #Delhi/#NCR with winds of 40kmph gusting at 70 kmph in the next 2-3 hours.
— SkymetWeather (@SkymetWeather) May 25, 2016
Twitterati reacted soon after.
#duststorm & #hailstorm started in south #Delhi. Amazing @SkymetWeather #hailstarted #DelhiRains — Chetan Saini (@chetansaini1991) May 25, 2016
These clouds bring lightning, thunderstorm, high-velocity winds and thundershowers. As and when, its top reaches more than 10 kms, it becomes capable of giving hail storm as well. A similar situation was witnessed in Gurgaon today.
@SkymetWeather @dineshchandhu the hailstorm live in action near Galleria, #Gurgaon pic.twitter.com/jG3KY8Ec3M — The Antifit (@anti_fit) May 25, 2016
Image credit - The Hindu
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