GUWAHATI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its daily bulletin has warned of fairly widespread rainfall activity likely over Northeast India during the next 4 days.
Further, thunderstorms, lightning & gusty winds (30-40 kmph) very likely over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Meghalaya and Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura during 16th-20th April. Read more
It is to be mentioned here that the Guwahati city in the last couple of days has witnessed light to moderate rainfall mostly during the evening hours of the day.
The IMD said that the change in the weather conditions was under the influence of moisture feed from the Bay of Bengal in lower tropospheric levels.
Due to this, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall activity very likely over Northeast India during the next 4 days, the IMD said.
Moreover, a Western Disturbance is now seen as a cyclonic circulation over north Pakistan with cyclonic circulation over northwest Rajasthan. Under this weather condition, widespread rainfall with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds very likely over Western Himalayan Region during April 16 and 17. "Isolated hailstorm is likely over Himachal Pradesh on April 16 and over Uttarakhand on April 16 and 17. Isolated heavy rainfall also very likely over Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh on April 16", the bulletin said. Read more
As for the seasonal precipitation, almost all the states in the Northeastern region have recorded below-average rainfall since the beginning of the pre-monsoon season in March.
In fact, between March 1 and April 16, the likes of Arunachal Pradesh (211.7 mm), Assam (80.3 mm), Manipur (72.5 mm), and Nagaland (62.2 mm) have recorded 'deficit' rains as compared to their respective long-term average figures, whereas Tripura (66.3 mm) and Mizoram (36.5 mm) have registered 'large deficit' precipitation figures.
On the other hand, Meghalaya is the only state to have recorded 'normal' rain figures at 160.2 mm, while Sikkim has registered 'excess' precipitation at 331.6 mm, as compared to their respective long-term averages.