As cyclone Tauktae weakens, Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh to witness heavy rainfall
Rainfall in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh: Cyclone Tauktae is very likely to move north-eastwards and weaken gradually into a well-marked low-pressure area during the next 12 hours. The remnant of the system is very likely to move further north-eastwards across Rajasthan to west Uttar Pradesh during the next two days.
The Indian Meteorological Department stated that the Deep Depression over the Gujarat region moved north-eastwards with a speed of about 07 kmph during the past 6 hours, weakened into a depression and lay centered at 0530 hours IST of Wednesday.
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It weakend near latitude 24.3°N and longitude 73.3°E over south Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat region, about 60 kms west-southwest of Udaipur (Rajasthan) and 110 km east-northeast of Deesa (Gujarat region).
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It is very likely to move north-eastwards and weaken gradually into a Well-Marked low-pressure area during the next 12 hours. The remnant of the system is very likely to move further north-eastwards across Rajasthan to west Uttar Pradesh during the next two days.
Likewise, light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places is very likely over East Rajasthan on May 19.
The interaction of the remnant low-pressure system with a trough in westerlies associated with a Western Disturbance is very likely to cause light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls and extremely heavy falls at isolated places over Uttarakhand, heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh and Heavy rainfall at isolated places over Punjab, East Uttar Pradesh, north Madhya Pradesh, and West Rajasthan during next 24 hours.
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