The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast rainfall accompanied thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds over Northwestern part of the country for the next 4-5 days.
The heat wave conditions with reduced intensity are likely to continue in isolated pockets over parts of Northwest and East India during the same period.
The IMD said, in association with an approaching western disturbance, isolated to scattered light rainfall accompanied by thunderstorm, lightning and winds gusting up to 40 kmph is very likely over Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh till 8th of this
month.
On Southwest monsoon, the weather department said, conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon into remaining parts of central Arabian Sea, remaining parts of Karnataka, some parts of south Maharashtra, some more parts Telangana and Coastal Andhra Pradesh, some parts of south Chhattisgarh and South Odisha, some more parts of West Central and Northwest Bay of Bengal in the next 3-4 days.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, the IMD forecast a generally cloudy sky with the possibility of rain or thunderstorm or duststorm. The maximum temperature in the national capital is expected to hover around 43 degrees Celsius.