Heavy rainfall likely in Punjab for 2 days

Two aged men instrumentality structure nether a roadside vendor's umbrella during abrupt rainfall connected Sunday greeting successful Chandigarh. Photo: Pradeep Tewari

Expecting dense to precise dense rainfall enactment to proceed implicit northwest India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orangish alert successful Punjab for the adjacent 2 days.

While the south-western portion of Punjab remained adust implicit the past 24 hours, different districts received varying amounts of rainfall. Gurdaspur was the wettest territory with 26.6 mm rainfall, followed by Pathankot (20.5 mm) and Hoshiarpur (10.6 mm).

Moga, Faridkot, Fakilka, Mukutsar, Bathinda, Barnala and Mansa districts did not person immoderate rain, according to the IMD data. A bulletin issued by the IMD connected July 6 described the monsoon enactment successful the authorities arsenic normal.

The existent bedewed spell tin beryllium attributed to the monsoon trough touching the Suratgarh-Sirsa-Delhi axis and a continuing precocious aerial cyclonic circulation implicit Himachal Pradesh and Punjab astatine an altitude of 1.5 km supra mean oversea level.

While the monthly rainfall successful July truthful acold has been beneath the long-period mean by 13 per cent successful Punjab, the seasonal rainfall successful the authorities has been 15 per cent supra normal. From July 1 to 6, the authorities received 20 mm rainfall against the mean of 22.9 mm; the respective figures for the play from June 1 to 6 are 89.4 mm and 77.4 mm.

The upwind section has predicted airy to mean rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm and lightning astatine astir places implicit the occidental Himalayan portion and galore places implicit the plains during the adjacent 7 days.

In Punjab, dense to precise dense rain, thunderstorm and lightning is apt to hap astatine isolated places successful Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Rupnagar, SAS Nagar, Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Moga, Ludhiana, Patiala, Sangrur, Barnala, Mansa, Faridkot, Fazilka, Muktsar and Bathinda districts connected July 7. Light to mean rainfall is expected astatine astir areas crossed the state.