Heavy rains lash Himalayas, sub Himalayan region in India |
The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a warning of heavy rainfall, thunderstorm, and lightning over several parts of northwest India for the next few days. According to the weather department`s latest forecast, an intense spell of rainfall is likely to continue over parts of the plains of northwest India, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and West Uttar Pradesh on September 26. Widespread, moderate rainfall with isolated heavy downpours and thunderstorm/lightning is very likely over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Bihar, and Odisha on September 26-27. Fairly widespread and light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy downpours and thunderstorm/lightning is expected over Arunachal Pradesh. A western disturbance as a trough in mid-tropospheric westerlies run roughly, under whose influence, the current spell of rainfall is likely to continue over northwest India for the next few days followed by a reduction thereafter," a statement by the IMD said.
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