IMD predicts heavy rainfall over Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has stated that Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh are likely to receive heavy rains on Friday. The IMD attributes this rainfall due to western disturbances persisting as a cyclonic circulation over Afghanistan and its neighbourhood. Thunderstorm accompanied by lightning is very likely at isolated places over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, West Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal. 

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IMD's prediction 

The weather forecast agency in its All India Weather Warning Bulletin on Friday have predicted, "The Western Disturbance as a cyclonic circulation over Afghanistan and neighbourhood extending between 3.1 and 4.5 km above mean sea level persists. The associated trough in mid & upper tropospheric westerlies with its axis at 5.8 km above mean sea level roughly along Long. 62°E to the north of Lat. 20°N also persists." The IMD via its bulletin further stated, "Under its influence, fairly widespread to widespread rain/snow is likely over Jammu and Kashmir and scattered to fairly widespread rain/snow over Himachal Pradesh along with isolated heavy precipitation during the next 24 hours."

In Delhi, the shallow fog will engulf the region throughout the day with the minimum and maximum temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Celsius and 27 degrees Celsius. The relative humidity in the area would be around 65 per cent. However, in Mumbai, the sky will generally be clear with the minimum and maximum temperatures around 22 degrees Celsius and 34 degrees Celsius.

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Fresh snowfall in parts of Kashmir on Nov 9

Fresh snowfall was experienced in parts of Kashmir as a thick layer of fog engulfed the valley on Saturday, November 9, affecting air traffic here, officials said. A few places in the higher reaches of Kashmir experienced fresh snowfall during the night, an official of the Met Department said. Kokernag town in south Kashmir recorded 3.8 mm of snow, while the highway township of Qazigund along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway registered 0.2 mm of snowfall, he said. Pahalgam tourist resort, which also serves as the base camp for the annual Amarnath yatra, in south Kashmir recorded 2.2 mm of a fresh snowfall, the official said. He said there are reports of snowfall in some other areas in the higher reaches of the valley.

The official said a thick layer of fog had engulfed most parts of the valley on Saturday morning as the temperature dipped to freezing point. The fog affected the flight operations at Srinagar airport as most of the flights were delayed, while two were cancelled. "The air traffic remained affected today as two-morning flights were cancelled while most others were delayed," an official of the Airport Authority of India said. The official further stated the air traffic was affected because of poor visibility due to the fog.

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(INPUTS FROM ANI)