IMD sees hailstorm over parts of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bengal from Thu
This story was originally published at 16:31 IST on 18 March 2025
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MUMBAI – The India Meteorological Department has forecast isolated hailstorms over Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, and Odisha from Thursday through weekend due to an influence of a wind confluence from the Bay of Bengal over central and eastern India.
A wind confluence occurs when air currents converge, rather than disperse, which can cause air to rise, leading to cloud formation and increased chances of precipitation.
The wind confluence is also likely to bring isolated to scattered light or moderate rainfall, accompanied with thunderstorm, lightning, and gusty winds over the sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim starting Thursday. These weather conditions are seen prevailing over the same places till Saturday. Similar conditions are also seen over Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Vidarbha during the weekend.
According to the weather agency, Arunachal Pradesh will experience scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall or snowfall, along with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds, over the next five days. These conditions are attributed to the cyclonic circulation over northeast Assam and its surrounding areas in the lower tropospheric levels.
The same cyclonic circulation is expected to bring isolated to scattered light to moderate rainfall, accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds, to Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura during the next five days.
The weather bureau said heat wave conditions are likely to continue over isolated pockets of interior Odisha on Tuesday. "Current spell of heat wave conditions are likely to abate from interiors Odisha from Mar. 19 (Wednesday)," it said. Hot and humid conditions are very likely over coastal areas of Gujarat during the next two days and over interior Karnataka till Thursday.
The weather department has forecast a gradual increase of 2-3 degrees Celsius in maximum temperatures over northwest India over the next three days. There is no significant change expected in the maximum temperatures over central India and Maharashtra in the next 24 hours, but a decrease of 2-4 degrees Celsius is likely in the following 2-5 days.
No major change in maximum temperatures is anticipated over eastern India in the next three days, with a decline of 3-5 degrees Celsius expected in the subsequent two days. Similarly, no significant change is expected in maximum temperatures over Gujarat in the next four days, but a rise of 2-3 degrees Celsius is seen thereafter, according to the weather bureau. End
Reported by J. Navya Sruthi
Edited by Subhojit Sarkar
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