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Informist, Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2026

 

MUMBAI – The India Meteorological Department Tuesday said a trough running in the westerlies to the northeast of India is likely to cause heavy rainfall and thundersqualls with winds reaching 50–60 kilometres per hour and gusting to 70 km per hour over parts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on Friday. An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over central Assam, which is expected to cause heavy rainfall over parts of Assam, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh on Friday and Saturday, and over Nagaland on Saturday, it said.

 

These weather systems are also likely to cause scattered rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds over most parts of east and northeast India till Sunday, the weather department said.

 

Two western disturbances are expected to form in quick succession, which are likely to affect northwest India--one from Friday and the other from the second half of Saturday, the weather bureau said. As such, light rainfall or snowfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds is likely over parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Delhi on Thursday and over Uttarakhand on Friday, the bureau said. Another fresh spell of such weather is expected over the same region from Saturday to Monday, it said.

 

A cyclonic circulation lies over the central parts of Madhya Pradesh, from which a trough runs to north-central Maharashtra, the weather bureau said. These weather systems are expected to cause light rainfall with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds over parts of Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh on Thursday and Friday and over east Madhya Pradesh on Friday and Saturday. In west India, the presence of the trough is likely to cause similar weather over parts of central Maharashtra till Thursday and over Marathwada till Wednesday, the bureau said.

 

An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over south interior Karnataka, while a trough runs from the Gulf of Mannar to north interior Karnataka, the weather department said. Under the influence of these weather systems, light rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds are expected over parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Telangana, and Karnataka in the next five days, and over Kerala on Friday and Saturday, it said.

 

Hot and humid conditions are likely to prevail over parts of Kerala till Thursday and over coastal Maharashtra till Wednesday, the weather department said. An alert for hot and humid weather is issued when maximum temperatures remain 3 degrees Celsius above normal, along with above-normal relative humidity.

 

Maximum temperatures over northwest India are expected to gradually rise by 2–4 degrees Celsius in the next four days, the weather bureau said. In central India, maximum temperatures are likely to gradually rise by 2–3 degrees Celsius in the next three days, while those in west India are expected to rise by 2–3 degrees Celsius in the next two days, the bureau said. Maximum temperatures over east India are expected to rise by 3–5 degrees Celsius in the next four days, after which a gradual fall by 2-4 degrees Celsius is seen in the subsequent three days, it said.  End

 

Reported by Shreya Shetty

Edited by Ashish Shirke

 

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