⏱️ Synoptic Features:
🔺Western Disturbance lies over North & Central Pakistan and neighbouring regions of India as cyclonic circulation in middle tropospheric levels. It affects North and Northwest India between 05th-06th April.
🔺Another Western Disturbance affects Northwest India between 07th-09th April, 2026.
🔺Remnants of these systems are seen over Northeast India and adjoining Bangladesh between 07th-08th and 09th-11th April 2026.
🔺Subtropical Westerly Jet Stream with core winds greater 90 knots at 200hPa reaches as South as 20°S as it meanders eastwards along with deep amplitude westerly trough across North, Central and Northeast India, between 05th-10th April, generally to the rear of the WDs providing upper air diversion to the low level circulations.
🔺Upper-air cyclonic circulations lie over Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and North Interior Karnataka at 850hPa mainly during the initial part of the forecast period.
🌧️ Rainfall Outlook:
🔺North & North West India: Fairly-widespread light/moderate rainfall/snowfall with scattered thunderstorm/hailstorm over Western Himalayas during 05th-06th and 07th-09th April with scattered heavy spells over Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh.
🔺Scattered rainfall with isolated thunderstorm, occurs over Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and West UP during 05th-06th and 07th-09th April. Second spell causes scattered heavy spells over North Rajasthan, Haryana and adjoining Delhi NCR.
🔺North East India: Fairly widespread light/moderate rain/thunderstorms over Nepal, Sub Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Bhutan with scattered heavy spells over Assam and Arunachal Pradesh during 07th-08th April. During 09th-11th April the activity spread to Bangladesh and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal with scattered heavy spells.
🔺Central India: Scattered moderate rainfall will occur over Madhya Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh during 05th-06th April.
🔺East India: Moderate rain/thunderstorms over Gangetic West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bangladesh during 09th-11th April..
🔺South Peninsular India: Scattered light rainfall will occur over Kerala and adjoining Tamil Nadu during 05th-07th and 11th-14th April.
🔺West India: No significant activity.
🌡️ Temperature Trends:
🔺 Minimum: 15-20°C over Plains of North, Northwest; 20-25°C West India, Indo Gangetic Plains, Central and South India, rising to 25-30°C during later part of the forecast period.
🔺 Maximum: 25-30°C over Plains of North, Northwest India; 30-35°C over West India, Indo Gangetic Plains, Central and South India with pockets of 35-40°C over Eastern Coast of India.
