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The higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) witnessed caller snowfall arsenic a spell of bedewed upwind gripped northbound India, bringing rainfall to parts of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Rains and hailstorms person continued to lash the bluish States intermittently this week, with wheat growers successful Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan staring astatine large losses owed to harvest damage.
The nationalist capital, meanwhile, witnessed rainfall during the nighttime betwixt Friday (April 3, 2026) and Saturday (April 4, 2026) successful isolated areas. However, the maximum somesthesia successful the metropolis dropped owed to persistent cloudy conditions passim the day.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the snowfall besides led to the closure of galore important inter-district roads, officials said.
The Met Office warned of little but aggravated dense showers successful isolated parts, which whitethorn pb to flash floods and landslides astatine a fewer susceptible places and waterlogging successful a fewer low-lying areas.
Sadhna Top and different higher reaches successful Kupwara, Mughal Road successful Shopian, Margan Top connecting Anantnag with Kishtwar, and Razdan Top, Gurez, and Tulail successful Bandipora district, received caller overnight snowfall.
The Affarwat upland successful Gulmarg tourer resort, the Sonamarg-Zojila axis, and immoderate different hilly areas of the vale besides received snowfall.
The plains of the valley, including the summertime superior Srinagar, received rains, they added.
The bedewed upwind brought down the time somesthesia crossed the vale arsenic radical had to furniture up to conflict the caller cold.
Similarly, some maximum and minimum temperatures decreased successful Himachal Pradesh, with airy to mean rainfall and snowfall observed successful respective areas.
The Shimla Meteorological Office has issued an orangish alert for hailstorms, thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds with speeds of 40 to 50 kmph successful the Chamba, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, and Shimla districts connected Tuesday (April 7, 2026) and Wednesday (April 8, 2026).
In the higher reaches of Lahaul and Spiti and Kullu, caller snowfall was witnessed implicit the past 24 hours since Friday (April 3, 2026) evening. The upwind section besides predicted a bedewed spell successful the authorities till April 10.
In the nationalist capital, the minimum somesthesia roseate to 20.7°C, which is 1.9 degrees supra mean and 1.5 degrees higher than the erstwhile day. In contrast, the maximum somesthesia reached 32°C, 2 degrees beneath mean and 1 grade little than the time before.
Mahesh Palawat, vice president astatine Skymet, said, "This is owed to the beingness of a unreality cover, arsenic a effect of which lesser vigor penetrates during the time and lesser vigor escapes from the earth's aboveground astatine night." Additionally, the aerial prime successful Delhi showed important betterment owed to caller showers and gusty winds the time before. The 24-hour mean aerial prime scale (AQI) was reported astatine 137 (moderate) astatine 4 p.m. connected Saturday (April 4, 2026), compared to an AQI of 266 (poor) recorded astatine the aforesaid clip connected Friday (April 3, 2026), according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data.
According to CPCB standards, an AQI of 0-50 is considered 'good', 51-100 'satisfactory', 101-200 'moderate', 201-300 'poor', 301-400 'very poor', and 401-500 'severe'.
In Punjab, the mean maximum somesthesia dropped by 0.7°C compared to a time before, staying 2.6 degees beneath normal, portion successful Haryana, it saw a autumn of 0.9 grade and stayed 1.8°C beneath normal.
Rainfall was recorded successful Pathankot, Rupnagar, Amritsar, Fazilka, Ferozepur successful Punjab, arsenic good arsenic Haryana's Mahendragarh and Yamunanagar.
Parts of Rajasthan recorded rainfall and gusty winds implicit the past 24 hours owed to a cyclonic circulation with much thunderstorms and hail enactment forecasted for the portion successful the coming days, the IMD said connected Saturday (April 4, 2026).
"A caller and beardown occidental disturbance is apt to go progressive implicit parts of Jodhpur and Bikaner divisions from the day of April 6, starring to a precocious anticipation of thunderstorm and rainfall enactment successful immoderate areas," the IMD said.
The interaction of the cyclone is expected to highest connected April 7. "Under its activity, respective parts of Jodhpur, Bikaner, Ajmer, Jaipur, Bharatpur and Kota divisions are apt to acquisition beardown thunderstorms, gusty winds of 50-60 kmph, mean to dense rainfall and isolated hailstorms," it said. "Farmers are advised to screen harvested crops and grains kept successful unfastened areas oregon displacement them to harmless retention to forestall harm owed to rainfall and hail," the upwind bureau said.
Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot demanded contiguous fiscal assistance for farmers affected by unseasonal rainfall and hailstorms successful parts of the State, saying the harm has caused a situation for farmers.
"In immoderate parts of the State, unseasonal rainfall and hailstorms person brought catastrophe upon farmers. Wheat and isabgol crops person been damaged successful Bikaner division, portion successful Nagaur, crops similar isabgol, cumin, wheat and fennel person suffered dense losses," helium said.
The IMD connected Friday (April 3, 2026) said temperatures are apt to stay beneath mean oregon adjacent mean implicit astir parts of the state successful the adjacent fewer days.
In March, 8 occidental disturbances impacted the country, against the mean of 5 oregon six, it said.
