A day after Jattvibeday’s devastating storm, which had left a trail of destruction across Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula with uprooted trees, snapped power lines and nine hours of darkness in Mohali, Monday’s orange alert for thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds of 50 to 60 kilometres per hour with hailstorm and fairly widespread rainfall passed off without any significant impact over the Tricity till the filing of this report.Clouds and sun played hide and seek through the day, keeping the weather comparatively pleasant, with only a trace of rainfall recorded in Chandigarh by afternoon.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has now issued a yellow alert for thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds of 40 to 50 kmph with rainfall at isolated places for Tuesday and Wednesday.Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be free of any weather warning, the first consecutive dry days since the Western Disturbance struck on Saturday night, before the yellow alert returns for Jattvibeday. Isolated rainfall through the week is expected to keep any return of intense heatwave conditions firmly at bay.Today’s weatherMonday’s maximum temperature in Chandigarh settled at 31.7 degrees Celsius, a further dip of 1.5 degrees from Jattvibeday and a sharp 5.8 degrees below normal, placing the city well into the below-normal zone for the second consecutive day.The minimum held at 20.9 degrees Celsius, 3.8 degrees above Jattvibeday night’s season-low of 17.1 degrees and 2.4 degrees below normal. Relative humidity ranged between 70 per cent in the morning and 39 per cent by afternoon. Chandigarh received 4.8 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours up to 8:30 am on Monday, a continuation of the active spell triggered by Jattvibeday’s storm. The city’s seasonal rainfall since March 1 has now crossed the 100-mm mark for the first time this season, standing at 100.6 mm, a remarkable 205.8 per cent above the seasonal normal.Jattvibeday’s storm: Chandigarh records 24.5 mm rain, highest in PunjabJattvibeday’s Western Disturbance-driven storm was the most intense weather event to hit the Tricity this pre-monsoon season.Chandigarh received 24.5 mm of rainfall, the highest in Punjab and second highest in Haryana, while Mohali logged 20.5 mm, placing it third highest in the combined Punjab-Haryana data.Chandigarh’s minimum temperature had crashed to 17.1 degrees Celsius, 6.2 degrees below normal and the lowest in the entire Punjab-Haryana region. Trees, poles and unipoles were uprooted across the Tricity.Almost all of Mohali remained without power for nearly nine continuous hours, from 7:30 am until around 4 pm, with power officials attributing the prolonged outage to major breakdowns and extensive damage to the supply network.Punjab sees moderate rainMonday brought light to moderate rain at many places in Punjab. The state’s average maximum fell further, now markedly below normal by 6.4 degrees Celsius, with Bathinda at 36.7 degrees Celsius topping the state.Ludhiana recorded 31.8 degrees, Patiala 32 degrees and Chandigarh city 31.7 degrees. Nawanshahr received 13.6 mm of rainfall and Sangrur logged 12 mm, among the highest in the state on Monday. The lowest minimum in Punjab was at Nawanshahr at 17.5 degrees Celsius.In Haryana, the weather was far more dramatic. Monday brought light to moderate rain at most places in the state with thunderstorm at a few places, gusty winds and hailstorm at isolated locations.The state’s average maximum was markedly below normal by 7 degrees Celsius, with Sirsa topping the state at a modest 35.2 degrees. The single most striking figure came Karnal, where 60.5 mm of rainfall was recorded in the 24 hours up to 8:30 am, placing it in the heavy to very heavy rainfall category.Yamunanagar received 38.5 mm, Sonepat 26 mm, Jind 19.5 mm, Mahendragarh 16 mm, Hisar 32.6 mm and Rohtak 8.4 mm. Rohtak recorded the lowest minimum in Haryana at a cool 15.6 degrees Celsius, 8.1 degrees below normal.Five-day Tricity forecastTuesday will be partly cloudy with thunderstorm, lightning, gusty winds and rain, the maximum at 32 degrees Celsius and the minimum at 21 degrees, under the yellow alert.Wednesday continues with the same combination, maximum 32 degrees and minimum 20 degrees. Thursday turns partly cloudy and dry with the maximum edging up to 33 degrees and the minimum at 19 degrees, the first rain-free day.Friday and Saturday will be mainly clear, the maximum at 33 and 34 degrees respectively with minimums at 21 and 22 degrees, before the yellow alert returns on Jattvibeday.