Prolonged Spells of Rain & Snowfall to lash North India from tomorrow evening, Ready to bring your jackets & sweaters out as intense Cold Wave will grip entire North India very soon.

Forecast from 25^th to 29^th November, 2019 (Rain & thunderstorm activities to cover most of parts of northern plains from 25^th Evening to 28^th Night, Cold and clear weather thereafter)

Almost entire Northern region is going to witness a prolonged spells of rain & snowfall starting from 25^th Evening to 28^th Night, as a active Western Disturbance as a trough in mid-tropospheric westerlies with its axis at 5.8 km above mean sea level is over Afghanistan & West Pakistan border region and will move eastward towards Central Rajasthan of India (now runs roughly along Long. 62°E to the north of Lat. 28°N). This is likely to affect Western Himalayan region and adjoining plains from the night of 25th November, a another Western Disturbance as a cyclonic circulation over north Pakistan & neighborhood between 1.5 & 3.1 km above mean sea level persists under its effect, a trough is likely to form across West Rajasthan and adjoining Pakistan.

State-wise weather forecast:

Rajasthan: Light to moderate rainfall is very likely in parts of Central & North Rajasthan (major cities like Hanumangarh, Alwar, Jodhpur, Bikaner and Sikar, Jodhpur and Phalodi and there nearby areas) from 25^th Evening to 27^th Morning. Heavy rainfall along with thunderstorm or hailstorm activities may be witnessed at isolated places during the same time Places like Sriganganagar and Jaiselmer are not likely to receive any significant rainfall from this upcoming spells although one or two isolated thunderstorm activities cannot be denied at the same time.

Haryana & Delhi/NCR:  Light to moderate rainfall is very likely in parts entire Haryana and Delhi/NCR starting from south Haryana (major cities like major cities like Faridabad, Gurgaon, Manesar, Palwal, Aurangabad, Rewari, Pataudi, Rohtak, Sonipat, Panipat, Karnal, Kurushetra, Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Kaithal, Chandigarh and there nearby areas) and Delhi/NCR from 25^th Evening to 27^th evening. Heavy rainfall along with thunderstorm or hailstorm activities may be witnessed at isolated places during the same time.

Punjab: Light to moderate rainfall in most of parts of Punjab except some parts of south west Punjab (major cities like Amritsar, Batala, Gurdaspur Jalandhar, Moga, Patiala, Ludhiana, Mansa, Sangrur, Hoshiarpur and there nearby areas) from 26^th Noon to 28^th Morning. Heavy rainfall along with thunderstorm or hailstorm activities may be witnessed at isolated places during the same time. But Places like Abohar and Molout are not likely to receive any significant rainfall from this upcoming spells although one or two isolated thunderstorm activities cannot be denied at the same time.

Uttar Pradesh: Light to moderate rainfall in entire West Uttar Pradesh (Major cities like Saharanpur, Bijnor Meerut, Agra, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar and there nearby areas) from 26^th Noon to 28^th Morning. East Uttar Pradesh is likely to remain unaffected from this spell but Central U.P. (Places like Lucknow, Kanpur and there nearby areas)   may witness one or two isolated thunderstorm activities on 27 and 28 November.

Jammu & Kashmir, Laddakh, Himachal Pradesh & Uttarakhand: all Four Himalayan regions are likely to be affected by this system, light to moderate rainfall/snowfall along with some heavy spells of rainfall/snowdall will be witnessed in all four region starting from 26^th November and will last till 28^th Night. During this period snowfall is much likely to occur at most of places at the altitude of 2000m or above, places like Spiti, Manali, Narkanda and upper parts of Shimla, Kedarnath, Badrinath and Auli are much likely to receive the major snowfall activity during this period.

After 28^th November after this system will come to end, intense northwest chilly winds will take the grip over entire northern plains and as result people will be forced to use the sweater and jackets and then we can declare it as proper winter season.

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Srijan Kumar Gupta

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