From parts of West Bengal and Sikkim in the East, to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the South, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has sounded a rainfall alert for various regions across the country in the next few days.
According to IMD’s weather bulletin, from today till May 11, West Bengal and Sikkim are expected to experience widespread light to moderate rainfall, thunderstorms, lightning, and squally winds of 40-50 kmph. Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha will also see scattered to widespread rainfall with similar conditions from May 9-12, while Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, and Chhattisgarh will experience isolated to scattered rainfall during this period.
Heavy rainfall alert has also been sounded for several regions — sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim today, Gangetic West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura on May 10. Additionally, East Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha may see hailstorms on May 9.
In southern India, a new cyclonic development over Tamil Nadu, along with a trough from northeast Rajasthan to south-interior Karnataka at lower tropospheric levels, will influence the weather between May 9 and 12. This will result in isolated-to-scattered-light-to-moderate rainfall with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds of 30-40 kmph over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, and surrounding regions. Isolated heavy rainfall is expected over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal from May 9th to 11th, and over Kerala and Mahe on May 11th.
In northern India, the Western Disturbance will bring scattered-to-widespread rainfall with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds of 30-40 kmph over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand from May 9th to 12th. Isolated hailstorm activity is predicted over Uttarakhand during this period.
Certain regions across the country will also experience heatwave conditions with maximum temperatures exceeding 40°C. While West Rajasthan saw temperatures as high as 43-46°C, parts of Gujarat and northern Madhya Maharashtra saw 40-43°C. These temperatures were 2-4°C above normal in Rajasthan and 1-2°C above normal in the other areas.
Heatwave conditions were also reported in some pockets of West Rajasthan on Wednesday. These conditions are expected to prevail in isolated pockets over East Rajasthan and Saurashtra and Kutch today, and in West Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh from May 9-10. Hot and humid weather is likely in isolated pockets over coastal areas of Gujarat over the next five days and in Kerala from May 9 to 10.
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