Thundershowers over northern parts may last till month-end

North-West India and the rest of North and East India are forecast to remain wet through the rest of the month and even early into April.

Rajasthan and Gujarat may sit out of the thundershower regime during the week beginning on Monday, but may join the rest of the North in the week that follows (March 25 to April 2).

Extreme southern peninsula too might be able to share the spoils as the Bay of Bengal and adjoining Indian Ocean rustle up some wet weather from confluence of winds.

The festival of Holi may have signalled the arrival of spring in North India, but the hills are forecast to experience heavy to very heavy rain or snow variously into early April.

There is no let-up in the arrival of causative western disturbances, which are low-pressure waves that triggers snow, rain and thundershowers across the region. Unseasonal thundershowers/hailstorm activity has already cost heavy for lakhs of acres of farmlands over northwest and adjoining central India.

India Met Department has announced that a fresh weather-driving western disturbance will march in to the western Himalayan region by Tuesday. It will be accompanied by a cyclonic circulation that will fix into position over west Rajasthan and trigger associated weather over the region.

Heavy rain and snow has been forecast at a few places while it will be heavy to very heavy at isolated places of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh on Monday.

The cyclonic circulation will bring squally weather into Himachal Pradesh and adjoining Punjab and Haryana.

Rain or thundershowers have been forecast over Punjab and Haryana until Tuesday, the Met Department said. North Rajasthan is likely to witness adverse weather over two days, while West Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will be the next in line with the movement of the western disturbance.

Thundershowers may lash Konkan, Goa, and Madhya Maharashtra in Central India on Tuesday.

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