Overview
- Delhi-NCR, which saw fresh showers and hail on Thursday, moved under yellow to orange alerts as gusts up to 50 km/h dropped daytime highs to the mid-to-high 30s.
- IMD forecasts fairly widespread rain, thunderstorms and gusty winds across the Northeast, East, Central and South through early May, with heavy to very heavy rain likely in Assam, Meghalaya, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.
- Temperatures have fallen by roughly 2–5°C in many northern and central locations, yet the IMD says heatwave conditions will persist in isolated pockets such as Vidarbha and parts of West Rajasthan, with hot and humid weather over parts of Odisha and coastal south India.
- Bengaluru’s heavy downpours on Wednesday led to waterlogging, traffic delays and tree-falls, and a yellow alert remains in place as pre-monsoon thundershowers continue across parts of Karnataka.
- Meteorologists trace the volatile pattern to a western disturbance and upper-air circulations interacting with a southward trough over Telangana, a setup that fuels fast, uneven thunderstorm bursts and could bring another round of north Indian storms around May 3–5.