Western disturbance may bring respite from heat in NW India

Northwest India is likely to get some respite from the torrid heat over the next two-three days due to a fresh western disturbance but mercury will continue to soar in central India and other parts of the country.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Laxman Singh Rathore said the fresh western disturbance is over North Pakistan and adjoining areas. "It will start affecting Jammu and Kashmir from April 16 evening. The effect will be there for two-three days," he said.
A western disturbance is an extratropical storm which originates in the Mediterranean and brings sudden winter rain and snow to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, also affecting the weather in other countries, like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. This is a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern driven by the Westerlies.

"Its induced cyclonic circulation is over South-Central Pakistan and adjoining West Rajasthan," Skymet, a private weather forecasting agency said.
Rathore said though its effect will be felt in hill states, there could be "some relief" in terms of temperatures in the plains of northwest India which are reeling under heatwave-like conditions and mercury is unlikely to soar any further in the next two-three days.
However, heatwave conditions will continue to prevail in central India and other parts of the country. Isolated pockets of Himachal Pradesh will also face the scorching sun.
"There will be no significant changes in maximum temperature across the plains of northwest India. It is likely to rise by 1-2 degrees Celsius over central, west and adjoining India in the next two-three days.

"Heatwaveconditions(will) very likely (prevail) at isolated places in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Marathwada and central parts of Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana and Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh," the IMD said.