Light to moderate rain accompanied by cold wind continued in the national capital and neighbouring areas for the second day today causing a dip in the mercury. The Met department has said, the rainfall was due to the western disturbances that come into northwest India, bringing moist winds from Mediterranean and Caspian seas. It said cloudy conditions will continue in Delhi for the next three days.
The weatherman has also predicted that thunderstorms accompanied by squall and hailstorms would occur at isolated places over Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh.
Several parts of Uttar Pradesh witnessed high velocity winds accompanied by rain Friday. Five members of a family were killed in a house collapse in Barabanki district. The hapless farmers, reeling under last month’s battering from the inclement weather, were faced with the prospect of heavy crop loss. Wheat and Mango crops bore the brunt of the calamitous weather.
