The jet appeared near the centre of a striking image. Below, Earth’s thin atmosphere glowed faint green. City lights peeked through the cloud cover.
These winds sweep up loose dust from deserts, dry riverbeds, and farmland, driving it forward along the leading edge of the storm cell.
The region reported heavy rainfall, strong winds and widespread power outages.
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As per an IMD spokesperson, from late last night to early this morning, a substantial outburst of heavy rainfall was reported over Delhi, with two observatories, Mangeshpur and Mayur Vihar, recording a remarkable 110 mm of rainfall.
Parts of North Gujarat have received extremely heavy rainfall on June 18 even as the intensity of cyclone Biparjoy has reduced from "very severe cyclonic storm" to a "depression".
During this period, 3 cm rainfall was recorded each in Nasirabad and Vijaynagar (both Ajmer), Todabhim (Karauli), Nagrafort (Tonk) and Jaipur, the official said.
A fresh Western Disturbance is anticipated to influence the weather conditions in northwest India starting from May 29.
Light to moderate rains continues to lash several parts of all the 12 districts in the state.
While the maximum temperatures in northwest, central and east India oscillated between 36 and 39 degrees Celsius on Sunday, it hovered between 30 and 35 degrees Celsius in the rest of the country, barring the western Himalayan region where it settled between 15 and 25 degrees Celsius, the MeT said.
The power outages, ranging from a few minutes to several hours, were reported from different parts of the city, including Shalimar Bagh, Keshav Puram, Moti Nagar, Bawana, Narela, Mustafabad, Najafgarh, Dwarka among others, they said.
On May 15, the Safdarjung observatory recorded 45.6 degrees Celsius while two weather stations at Mungeshpur in northwest Delhi and Najafgarh in southwest Delhi reported 49.2 and 49.1 degrees Celsius, respectively.
Thunderstorm and hailstorm is expected to hit sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur and Sikkim on April 18.
The city recorded a minimum temperature of 26.2 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature is expected to hover around 35 degrees Celsius, the weather department said.
The weatherman said scorching heat will continue tomorrow as well, but added there is possibility of thundershowers with strong gusty winds on May 30.
"Four deaths were reported from Etawah, three each from Mathura and Aligarh, two each in Firozabad and Agra and one death each in Hathras and Kanpur Dehat last night," an official spokesperson said.
The highest 73 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh, 35 killed in Rajasthan, eight in Telangana, six in Uttarakhand and two in Punjab.
The maximum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 38.6 degrees Celsius, down from yesterday's 39.6 and a notch above the normal, while the minimum settled at 25.8 degrees Celsius.
A western disturbance as an upper air cyclonic circulation over eastern parts of Iran and adjoining Afghanistan now lies over western parts of Afghanistan.