New Delhi, A low pressure area is expected to form in a couple of days over southeast Bay of Bengal. The Western Disturbance over north Pakistan and adjoining Jammu & Kashmir now lies entirely over Jammu & Kashmir and would affect the hills and the plains of northwest during the next 48 hours.
Under the aegis of the Western Disturbance, snowfall activities will pick up during the next 24 hours and would impact Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. More places in Jammu & Kashmir and one or two places in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand will receive snow during the next two to three days.
Rain is also expected in northwest plains due to the weather system. Rain would occur at one or two places over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and west Uttar Pradesh after the next 24 hours. Party cloudy sky would be witnessed in the region during this period and northern areas could experience a marginal fall in the maximum temperatures.
This stay of Western Disturbance would also raise the minimum temperatures over northwest, east and central India by 2 to 3 degrees as it will stop flow of cooler winds from the north. The cold chill is likely to reduce over these regions during the next 72 hours. As of now, the Western Disturbance will move in an eastwards direction.
In the south, light rain is expected to continue over the southern extreme of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. A cyclonic circulation continues to persist over south Tamil Nadu and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal off Sri Lanka coast.
But the main attention in the Bay is on the formation of a low pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal during the next 48 hours. A cyclonic circulation is persisting over the Andaman Sea and it is making conditions favourbale for the birth of a low pressure area. The cyclonic circulation will bring rain over the Andaman & Nicobar Islands during the next 48 hours.
