Public Weather Bulletin Thursday, 26th February, 2030 Time of Issue: 1530 IST

Realised Weather (from 0830 hours IST of yesterday to 0830 hours IST of today)

1. Light to Moderate Rain/Thundershowers observed at most places over , &

Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya and Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura; at many places over Uttarakhand and Bihar; at a few places over Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh and at isolated places over Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh and Coastal . Isolated heavy rainfall also observed over Odisha. Chief amount of rainfall (more than 1

cm): Bhubaneshwar -8; Jalpaiguri -6; Darjeeling -5; Bhagalpur, Deomali, Ambikapur, , Paradip, -2 each; Dehradun, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Patna, Malda, canning, Daltangunj, Majbat. Tejpur, Digha, Hirakud, and Keonjhargarh -1 each. 2. H ailstorm observed at isolated places over Uttarakhand & Bihar.

Weather System & Forecast

1. Yesterday’s cyclonic circulation over south Bihar now lies over north Bihar and adjoining Sub- Himalayan West Bengal with a trough aloft in middle & upper tropospheric levels. It is very likely to cause Widespread rainfall activity with Isolated thunderstorm, lightning & gust winds (speed reaching

30-40 kmph) over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and northeastern states during next 24 hours and decrease thereafter. 2 . A fresh Western Disturbance likely to affect Western Himalayan Region from 27th February night onwards. Under its influence, an induced cyclonic circulation is likely to form over West Rajasthan & neighbourhood on 28th February. It is very likely to cause moderate fairly widespread to widespread precipitation with isolated thunderstorm accompanied with lightning over western Himalayan region on

28th & 29th February. Scattered to fairly widespread rainfall with isolated thunderstorm accompanied

with lightning & gusty winds (speed reaching 30-40 kmph) very likely over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, North Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh during the same period. 3 . Hailstrom very likely over Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Prdesh and north Rajasthan on 28th & 29th February and over Uttarakhand on 29th February. 4. Heavy rain/snow very likely over Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan on 28th & 29th February

and over Himachal Pradesh on 29th February.

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