After Delhi witnessed unexpected heavy showers and thunderstorms on Monday morning, Tuesday morning brought along a spell of light drizzles over parts of Mumbai. Rainfall was observed in Dadar, Sewri, Matunga, Parel and adjoining areas like Navi Mumbai, much to the delight of resident Mumbaikars.
As the wet weather caused a dip in mercury levels, netizens immediately took to Twitter, flooding the platform with memes on #MumbaiRains. Here's a compilation of the best visuals and memes that are keeping the Twitterati entertained.
For the rest of the day, the Maharashtrian capital is likely to witness overcast conditions with chances of light showers in the evening or night. Further ahead, Mumbai may embrace the season's first pre-monsoon showers this week, as per the IMD's seven-day forecast.
As for the monsoon, its usual onset date for Mumbai falls on June 11, but it will be interesting to see if it arrives earlier this year, as some trends have been indicating.
Delhi and Mumbai seem to be competing yet again — this time for unseasonal rains and a break from sweltering summer temperatures.
After Delhi witnessed unexpected heavy showers and thunderstorms on Monday morning, Tuesday morning brought along a spell of light drizzles over parts of Mumbai. Rainfall was observed in Dadar, Sewri, Matunga, Parel and adjoining areas like Navi Mumbai, much to the delight of resident Mumbaikars.
As the wet weather caused a dip in mercury levels, netizens immediately took to Twitter, flooding the platform with memes on #MumbaiRains. Here's a compilation of the best visuals and memes that are keeping the Twitterati entertained.
For the rest of the day, the Maharashtrian capital is likely to witness overcast conditions with chances of light showers in the evening or night. Further ahead, Mumbai may embrace the season's first pre-monsoon showers this week, as per the IMD's seven-day forecast.
As for the monsoon, its usual onset date for Mumbai falls on June 11, but it will be interesting to see if it arrives earlier this year, as some trends have been indicating.
Monday, May 23: Amid the absence of heatwaves across North and Northwest India, the unseasonal rainfall activity that began over the two regions on Sunday, May 22 is expected to continue for the next 48 hours.
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), fairly widespread rains and thunderstorms are likely across Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on Monday, and over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on Monday and Tuesday.
In Jammu-Kashmir, Ladakh and northern parts of Punjab, widespread rains along with isolated heavy downpours are also on the cards for the next 24 hours.
Residents of Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh may have to keep an eye out for hailstorms on Monday, as hail has been predicted in isolated pockets of the aforementioned states and UTs.
On the same day, West Rajasthan is likely to be suffocated by strong dust storms, which will affect the nearby states of Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and West Uttar Pradesh as well.
Conditions are likely to improve from Tuesday.
In view of these predictions, the IMD has placed Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh and East Rajasthan under an orange alert on Monday, with its adjoining areas on a yellow watch status. An orange alert advises residents to ‘be prepared’ for the hazardous weather conditions, while a yellow watch recommends keeping updated on the same.
These conditions will be caused by the combination of multiple meteorological factors — a fresh western disturbance that lies as a cyclonic circulation over north Pakistan, an induced low-pressure area over northwest Rajasthan, and an east-west trough runs from this low to north Bangladesh.
In fact, the conditions collectively caused by these systems started impacting the region on Sunday itself. On Monday, the country’s capital was lashed by strong gusts and heavy rains, which uprooted trees in many locations, caused traffic congestion and disrupted flights at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport. Traffic in the national capital and Gurugram was further exacerbated by flooding.
In spite of the current weather situation, a drop in the frequency of western disturbances has led to below-average rainfall across North and Northwest India through the pre-monsoon season. Between March 1 and May 24, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, and East Uttar Pradesh have all recorded ‘deficit’ to ‘large deficit’ precipitation (41.4 mm, 28.2 mm, 9.6 mm, 1.1 mm and 9.6 mm, respectively) as compared to their respective figures (63.5 mm, 28.2 mm, 14.6 mm, 8.4 mm and 14.1 mm, respectively) for this period.
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