Light rain, thunderstorm warning for Delhi, other parts of NW India today

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers with isolated lightning and hail are likely to be caused by the interaction between a Western Disturbance and lower level southeasterlies from the Bay of Bengal

There is a light rain and thunderstorm warning for Delhi and many parts of northwest India today.

Representational Image. (HT file photo)

A Western Disturbance as a cyclonic circulation is lying over East Afghanistan & adjoining Pakistan. An induced cyclonic circulation is lying over northwest Rajasthan and neighbourhood.

Under the influence of the above systems; fairly widespread light to moderate rain/snow with thunderstorm, lightning and hail is likely over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad on February 3; over Himachal Pradesh on February 3 and 4 and over Uttarakhand on February 3, 4 and 5.

Interaction between this Western Disturbance and lower level southeasterlies from the Bay of Bengal is likely to cause widespread light to moderate rain/thundershowers with isolated lightning and hail over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, north Rajasthan, northwest Madhya Pradesh and west Uttar Pradesh on February 4 and over east Madhya Pradesh and north Chhattisgarh on February 5, according to India Meteorological Department.