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Delhi on January 5 woke up to a cold and foggy day with minimum temperature recorded at 2.8 degrees Celsius at Lodhi Road. At Safdarjung, it was 3 degrees Celsius, the lowest for this season. This makes the Capital colder than Dharamsala, Nainital and Dehradun.
A deadly blizzard that hit upstate New York and Canada left ice-covered piers and homes. Images showed a row of houses fully crystallized in ice, turning Ontario's Fort Erie town into a fairytale 'ice town'.
Gusty winds and high waves lash on an embankment in Chennai. Three Tamil Nadu districts, Chengalpattu, Villupuram and Kancheepuram, are on red alert as cyclone Mandous maintains severe intensity.
The deep depression over central Bay of Bengal (BoB) is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by Sunday evening and after changing course in a northeastward direction from northwest, the system will reach north BoB before making landfall between Tinkona Island and Sandwip close to Bangladesh’s Barisal in the early morning of Tuesday, a top official said.
Delhi’s air pollution problem aggravates during winters due to seasonal and atmospheric factors
In its update at 4 pm, the IMD said thunderstorm accompanied with lightning and light to moderate spells of rain with gusty winds reaching 30-40 kilometres per hour were likely to occur at isolated places in Mumbai, Palghar, Thane, Satara, Sangli, Solapur, Beed, Parbhani, Hingoli, Nanded, Latur, Nasik, Aurangabad over the next three to four hours.
Multiple places all over the state of Rajasthan witnessed light to heavy rains.
Waterlogging has also been reported from several parts of the city. ”Traffic is affected on New Rohtak Road in the carriageway from Zakhira towards Anand Parbat due to waterlogging near Anand Parbat red light. Commuters are advised to avoid the stretch,” the Delhi Traffic Police tweeted.
Light rain is possible over rest of Northeast India and parts of Haryana.
The IMD has forecast thunderstorm accompanied by lightning and light to moderate rains and gusty winds (30 to 40 kmph) very likely at isolated places for Friday and Saturday, the official said.
This system is likely to be active for the next three days and trigger rainfall intermittently across south Bengal," an IMD spokesperson said.
The Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi’s primary weather station, recorded 58.5 mm of precipitation against a normal of 108.5 mm between September 1 and September 22 (Thursday morning).
The low pressure area is active in northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-West Bengal coasts with associated cyclonic circulation extending up to 5.8 km, the IMD said.
According to the weather office, India had received 7 per cent excess rains, but eight states, including the rice bowl states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, received deficient rainfall which could lead to lower farm output this kharif season.
Heeding a heavy rainfall prediction on September 23, the Gurugram district administration asked all corporate offices and private institutions to tell their employees to work from home “as there are chances of waterlogging and traffic congestion”.
Residents of localities and apartments that were inundated are making attempts to drain out water and remove sludge from their houses and basements.
A brutal Western heatwave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state’s electrical grid managed to handle record-breaking demand.
Several parts of Bengaluru remain inundated due to severe waterlogging, disrupting normal life. Heavy rain warning for the city, IMD issues yellow alert
Light to moderate rain, with some heavy spells, is also expected in parts of north India and some areas of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh
Skymet predicts that regions in eastern India like Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, parts of Bihar, northeast Uttar Pradesh, are likely to witness light to moderate rain with heavy spells in the next 24 hours.
A total of 1,553 people have died in the last five monsoons, he said.
Water also entered the caves of Tapkeshwar, a famous Shiva temple on the banks of the Tons river, they said.
As many as 217 out of the state's 251 talukas received showers in the 24-hour period that ended 6 am on Saturday, they said.
Regions in western Himalayas, Punjab, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, north east India, Kerala, and at one or two place over interior Karnataka are also likely to witness light rain according to Skymet's forecast.
