Ongoing severe weather activity over the country and warnings for next 5 days

• Under the influence of the Western Disturbance over Jammu & Kashmir & neighbourhood and a cyclonic circulation over Haryana & neighbourhood, following weather has been reported during past 24 hrs.
• Light to moderate Rainfalloccurred at many places over Jammu & Kashmir, HimachalPradesh Uttarakhand and West Rajasthan and at isolated places over Punjab, Haryana and east Rajasthan.
• Thunderstormoccurred at a few places over Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana,Chandigarh & Delhi and West Rajasthan.
• Duststrom occurred at a few places over East Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi and adjoining Uttar Pradesh.

Current Weather system and its forecast

• The western disturbance currently located over Jammu & Kashmir is very likely to moveeastwards during next 24 hrs and become unimportant.
• A cyclonic circulation in lower levels lies over Haryana and neighbourhood. It would move eastwards towards West Uttar Pradesh during next 24 hrs and become less marked thereafter.
• A north-south trough runs along longitude 88⁰E to the north of 24⁰ It is very likely to moveslowly eastwards during next 3 days.
• A fresh western disturbance very likely to affect western Himalayan region from 13^thMay
• An easterly wave with an embedded lower level cyclonic circulation is very likely to affectstates of Southern Peninsula during next one week.
• Under the influence of above two systems, widespread thunderstorm activity very likelysimultaneously over northwest, central, east, northeast and peninsular India from 13^th
• Weather Forecast
• Rain/thundershowers very likely at most places over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand; manyplaces over West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi; at a few places over north Rajasthan and East Uttar Pradesh during next 24 hrs and significant decrease thereafter.
• Rainfall/thunderstorm very likely at many places over northeastern states and parts of West Bengal & Sikkim, Odisha and Jharkhand during next 4-5 days.
• Light to moderate rainfall at a few places very likely over extreme south peninsula (Kerala, South Interior Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Puducherry) during next 5 days. The rainfall activity very likely to extend to north Peninsula, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from 11^th

Weather warnings for next 5 days:
Warning valid for 8 May 2018:

• Thunderstorm accompanied with squall(wind speed reaching 50-70 kmph) and hailverylikely at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
• Thunderstorm accompanied with squall(wind speed reaching 50-70 kmph) very likely atisolated places over Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim.
• Thunderstorm accompanied with gusty windsvery likely at isolated places over Jammu &Kashmir, Punjab, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Bihar, West Madhya Pradesh, East Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Coastal & South Interior Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Kerala.
• Heavy rainvery likely at isolated places over Tamilnadu, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala.
• Hot weather condition likely over Maharashtra with heat wave conditionsat one or twopockets over Vidarbha.

Warning valid for 9 May 2018:

• Thunderstorm accompanied with squall(wind speed reaching 50-70 kmph) and hailverylikely at isolated places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim.
• Thunderstorm accompanied with squall(wind speed reaching 50-70 kmph) very likely atisolated places over Assam & Meghalaya and Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura.
• Thunderstorm accompanied with gusty windsvery likely at isolated places over SouthInterior Karnataka.
• Heavy rainvery likely at isolated places over south Interior Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Keralaand Assam & Meghalaya.
• Hot weather condition likely over Maharashtra with heat wave conditionsat one or twopockets over Vidarbha.

Warning valid for 10 May 2018:

• Thunderstorm accompanied with squall(wind speed reaching 50-70 kmph) very likely atisolated places over Gangetic West Bengal.
• Hot weather condition likely over Rajasthan and Maharashtra with heat wave conditionsat one or two pockets over Vidarbha and Rajasthan.
• Heavy rainvery likely at isolated places over south Interior Karnataka and Tamilnadu.

Warning valid for 11 May 2018:

• Heavy rainvery likely at isolated places over South Interior Karnataka, Tamilnadu, northAndhra Pradesh.
• Hot weather condition likely over Rajasthan and Maharashtra with heat wave conditionsat one or two pockets over Vidarbha and Rajasthan.

Warning valid for 12 May 2018:

• Heavy rainvery likely at isolated places over South Interior Karnataka, Tamilnadu, northAndhra Pradesh and south Odisha.
• Hot weather condition likely over Rajasthan and Maharashtra with heat wave conditionsat one or two pockets over Vidarbha and Rajasthan.

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