Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions likely to continue over East India till 2 May and over south Peninsular India till 3 May and gradually improve thereafter says Indian Meteorological Department

Weather Systems and Forecast and Warnings:

• A cyclonic circulation lies over northeast Bangladesh and a trough runs from Bihar to Nagaland in lower tropospheric levels. Another cyclonic circulation lies over northeast Assam in lower tropospheric levels. Strong southwesterly winds from Bay of Bengal to northeast India are prevailing. Under their influence:
• Fairly widespread to widespread, light to moderate rainfall/snowfall accompanied with isolated thunderstorm and lightning and gusty winds (30-50 kmph) very likely over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura during next five days with isolated hailstorm over Sikkim on 1 May, 2024.
• Isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Arunachal Pradesh and Assam & Meghalaya during 01st-02nd and over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura during 1 and 3 May; with isolated very heavy rainfall over Arunachal Pradesh on 1 and 2 May and south Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura on 2 May 2024.

• A fresh Western Disturbance likely to affect northwest India from 3 May. Under its influence:
  • Scattered light to moderate rainfall/snowfall accompanied with thunderstorm and lightning very likely over Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh during 3 and 6 May.
  • Isolated very light/light rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm and lightning very likely over West Uttar Pradesh. Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan between 4 and 6 May.
  • Strong surface winds (25-35 kmph) very likely to prevail over Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi during 01st–03rd May.

• Rainfall activity is likely over south peninsular India with isolated to scattered, light to moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm and lightning over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam. Telangana. Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala and Mahe between 5 and 8 May.

• Heat Wave, Warm Night and Hot and Humid weather warning for next five days
• Maximum temperatures in the range of 44-47°C likely to continue over Gangetic West Bengal, East Jharkhand, north Odisha and Rayalaseema till 3 May and decrease thereafter.
• Heat Wave to severe heat wave conditions very likely to prevail in many places over Gangetic West Bengal; some parts of Odisha, Bihar; in isolated pockets of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Jharkhand during 1 and 2 May and reduce in intensity thereafter with heat wave conditions in isolated pockets over the region during subsequent three days.
• Heat Wave to severe heat wave conditions very likely to prevail in isolated pockets over Rayalaseema during next 3 days and heat wave conditions during subsequent 2 days
• Heat wave conditions very likely in isolated pockets over Telangana, Interior Karnataka, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam during next four to five days; over Kerala on 1 and 2 May and over Tamil Nadu between 1 and 3 May.
• Heat wave conditions very likely in isolated pockets over Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra, Gujarat State during 01st -05th and over Marathwada during 03rd-05th May.
• Hot and humid weather very likely to prevail over Coast Karnataka and Kerala & Mahe during next five days and West Assam on 1 May 2024.

Warm night very likely to prevail over Chhattisgarh during 01st-03rd; over Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada during 03rd-05th; over Odisha & Gangetic West Bengal on 1 and 2 May 2024.