With the weather disturbance heading eastwards, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted thunderstorm accompanied with squall and hail at isolated places over West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Jhharkhand and Bihar on Thursday.
With the weather disturbance heading eastwards, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted thunderstorm accompanied with squall and hail at isolated places over West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Jhharkhand and Bihar on Thursday.
Heavy rain is also expected at isolated places over Tamil Nadu, south interior Karnataka and Kerala today.
According to the IMD forecast, there has been a significant decrease in thunderstorm activity over Northwest India resulting in a rise in temperature by 2-3 degree Celsius during next two days.
In Uttar Pradesh, nine people were killed and four others injured as thunderstorm lashed parts of western Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.
Criticised for issuing an alert for a thunderstorm that triggered widespread panic among people, especially in Delhi, the Met department Wednesday said the wind speed observed was well within the range of what it had forecast.
Dust storm, rains and thunder left at least 100 animals dead in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, uprooting trees and blowing the roofs off homes in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla on Monday.