AFTER COLD WAVE, NOW RAIN IN OFFING
Wet spell forecast in several places in Uttar Pradesh
LUCKNOW : Along with heavy woollens, it is also time to keep umbrella and raincoat ready, as the weatherman has forecast a wet spell in several parts of UP from December 31 to January 3, 2020. To note, the city is already reeling under a cold spell. Maximum and minimum temperatures in Lucknow on Friday were 14.4°C (8 degrees below normal) and 7.7 °C (a notch below normal). “Now get set for 3-4 days of winter rain beginning from December 31. A fresh western disturbance is very likely to affect western Himalayan region from December 30 night onward,” said a press release issued by the director in charge, Lucknow Meteorological Centre here on Friday.
LUCKNOW: As if the cold wave sweeping the state was not enough, now there is rain in the offing . Along with heavy woollens, it is also time to keep umbrella and raincoat ready, as the weatherman has forecast a wet spell in several parts of Uttar Pradesh from December 31 to January 3, 2020.
To note, the city is already reeling under a cold spell. Maximum and minimum temperatures in Lucknow on Friday were 14.4°C (8 degrees below normal) and 7.7 °C (a notch below normal).
“Now get set for 3-4 days of winter rain beginning from December 31. A fresh western disturbance is very likely to affect western Himalayan region from December 30 night onward,” said a press release issued by the director in charge, Lucknow Meteorological Centre here on Friday.
Due to interaction between western disturbances and lower level easterlies from December 31, 2019 onwards, light/moderate and isolated to scattered rain/ thundershower is very likely over the state from December 31, 2019 to January 2, 2020. Isolated thunderstorm/hailstorm at isolated places was also very likely over south Uttar Pradesh on January 1 and 2, said met director JP Gupta. The met department has predicted that on December 31, there will be rainfall at Isolated places in Agra, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Mahoba and Hamirpur districts and in isolated places in Banda, Chitrakoot, Prayagraj, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts.
On New Year day (January 1), there will be rainfall at places adjoining Uttarakhand with decreasing spread towards MP border in west UP and in scattered places in east UP.
On January 2, 2020 the met department has predicted rainfall in west UP at scattered places over districts adjoining Uttarakhand
with decreasing spread towards MP border and in east UP at many places adjoining Nepal and at scattered places in other districts adjoining MP borders.
Then again on January 3, 2020 in west UP weather will be mainly dry and east UP will get rainfall at isolated places along with districts adjoining Bihar and Jharkhand. Ahead of the wet spell, people will have to brace cold to severe cold beginning from December 28. From Saturday, cold to very cold conditions are likely in many pockets of all districts in both east and west UP. . The local forecast for Lucknow and adjoining area is moderate to dense fog very likely in the morning and mainly clear sky there
after. Maximum and minimum temperature would be around 16 and 7 degrees Celsius respectively. Likewise, in east UP, cold to severe cold conditions are most likely in many pockets of all districts.
On December 29, cold day to severe cold conditions are likely in some pockets of all districts in west UP. Dense to very dense fog in isolated pockets is very likely in all districts except Jhansi, Lalitpur and Jalaun. In east UP, cold conditions are likely in isolated pockets of Hardoi, Lakhimpur, Kheri, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Barabanki, Faizabad, Sultanpur, Deoria, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Maharajganj and Varanasi, with dense fog in isolated pockets.