Chandigarh, November 4
Residents of different places, in the entire region, need to be prepared for hot weather in the forthcoming week. Confirming this, the Meteorological Department sources here today said: “Much against widespread public apprehensions about an early winter about a fortnight back, when the region witnessed a dip in the day temperatures, now even nights have become a little hot. This weather is likely to continue for another week.”
Talking to the Tribune, Chatar Singh, Director of the regional office of the Met Department, said, “There have been no rains resulting from the Western disturbances. This has resulted in rising temperature readings all over the region. Temperatures have risen because of weather disturbances. The winds bearing moisture have not resulted in rains anywhere, except in the North Himalayas. The humidity level in the entire region is likely to continue for another week, with corresponding hotter days”.
Giving the data, a senior official of the Met Department said “the rising graph of temperatures in the region can be gauged from the fact that Chandigarh which was recording a two degrees less than the normal more than a week back on October 26, 2009 at 13 degrees Celsius recorded a temperature of plus four degrees at 17.2 degrees, yesterday. During the same period, Ambala which recorded four degrees, less than normal, at 12.2 degrees, then, recorded higher temperatures, yesterday.
Interestingly, Karnal and Ludhiana recorded a minus five degrees less than the normal on October 26 at 10.8 and 11.4 degrees, respectively. Yesterday, Hisar, Karnal, Amritsar and Ludhiana, besides several other
towns in the entire region, witnessed higher temperatures.
Chatar Singh said, “People had become apprehensive of an early winter, this year. We received frequent calls from people asking us for weather forecasts because they wanted to take out winter wear.”
The Met Department forecast for the coming three days predicts a maximum temperature of 29 degrees and a minimum 12 degrees in Chandigarh region. The city today recorded a maximum of 32 degrees today, higher than the normal temperatures.
At the national level, the official website of the Met Department, in its “All India Weather Forecast Bulletin” has predicted that minimum temperatures are above normal by 4 to 7C over many parts of Rajasthan, by 2-30C over many parts of Uttar Pradesh and Saurashtra and Kutch and by 2-40C over some parts of West Bengal, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura.
Rainfall has occurred at many places over coastal Tamil Nadu and at isolated places over Rayalaseema, Kerala, Karnataka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. Except for isolated places, the weather is seen to remain dry till the coming weekend, the official data revealed.
