Heaven finally opened its door for Punjab and Haryana and lashed both the northern states of the county with good showers in the last 24 hours. While moderate to heavy rains occurred in Punjab, parts of Haryana had to adjust with a few scattered rains only.
It was the fag end of May when districts like Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Patiala in Punjab and Hisar in Haryana got to witness some spells. However, in the last 24 hours, moderate to heavy showers were recorded in most parts of Punjab and Haryana.
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Within a span of 24 hours from 08:30 am as on Tuesday, Ludhiana witnessed heavy spells of 48 mm, Patiala 30 mm, Amritsar 22 mm, and Hisar recorded light rains of 3 mm.
As per Skymet Weather, the reason for these showers can be attributed to a cyclonic circulation over Central Pakistan and adjoining Punjab and a trough is seen extending from this system up to coastal Odisha across Uttar Pradesh.
Moreover, the easterly winds that were blowing earlier are also now replace by the westerlies. These winds also resulted in increasing the humidity level of the area. All these factors are likely to be a contributing factor resulting in rain and thundershowers along with dust storm at some parts of Punjab and Haryana in the next 48 hours. Thereafter, on and off rains are expected to continue occurring in both the states until the weekend.
These showers will in turn also not let the temperatures to rise much. As against the earlier prevailing maximums that were settling between 44°C-47°C, these showers have dropped the maximums significantly in the order of 10-12°C. As of now also maximums are expected to not rise beyond 40°C.
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As these rains are expected to continue until the weekend, a rainy weekend is what people in Punjab and Haryana can anticipate. Moreover, heatwave is also not likely to make a comeback.
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