Most of India free of heatwave for next five days: IMD
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New Delhi: Most parts of India will not have heatwave conditions for the next five days, said the India Meteorological Department on Saturday.
A cyclonic circulation is over northwest Madhya Pradesh and another one is over interior Tamil Nadu. The trough of relatively low pressure is running from northwest Madhya Pradesh to south Tamil Nadu across Telangana. And another one extends from northeast Bihar to Odisha via Jharkhand. This usually brings cloudy conditions and rain which leads to a drop in the temperature, said private forecaster Skymet Weather.
Hailstorms are very likely in parts of Odisha over the next three days, in Bihar for the next two days, and on Monday in Vidarbha. Heavy rainfall is expected in parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on Sunday and in Odisha on Monday. Dust storm is very likely at isolated places in south Haryana, northeast Rajasthan, and west Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, said the weather office.
According to Skymet, scattered rainfall is expected in the entire Northeast, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana. Thunderstorms with patchy rain may occur over the western Himalayas, parts of Haryana, Punjab, Bihar, southeast Uttar Pradesh, southeast Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and south-interior Karnataka.
The IMD has recommended that farmers harvest matured rice, maize, groundnut, and ragi in Andhra Pradesh; rice in Kerala for safekeeping. In Arunachal Pradesh, harvesting of rice is advised to be postponed. Farmers in sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim and Odisha were asked to protect orchards using hail nets.
The forecast is a relief after high temperatures troubled most parts of India this week.
According to IMD reports, several parts of India had been experiencing heatwave conditions for the past few days. Local administrations in the northern and central plains were forced to either shut schools or change schedules. In Maharashtra, schools are shut till June 15. In the Vidarbha region, schools will remain closed till June 30. In the eastern hills, tea plantation workers are struggling with hot days and crop loss. In Delhi and surrounding areas, the maximum temperature hovered around 37 degrees Celsius.