Guwahati: On Saturday afternoon, hailstorm blew the festive mood in the capital and adjoining areas. Vasant Panchami, Due to a cyclonic circulation, Assam and Northeast have been receiving continuous rain for the last two days.
The hailstorm, which lasted for about 20 minutes from 3.45 pm, caught the returnees from here. saraswati puja festival, Unknown. The city was wrapped in a white carpet to the delight of the travellers. People staying in their homes away from the cold and rain enjoyed the unseasonal hailstorm.
Traffic was disrupted on several routes as cars could not ply due to indiscriminate rain and stone pelting. The roofs of several cars were damaged and glass was broken.
“This is the first time I have experienced hailstorms in the open. The entire Maligaon area was white. The stones were of various shapes and sizes and the white glow continued from Jalukbari to the road leading to the Kamakhya temple from Maligaon,” said A. . College teacher, Madhuri Saikia,
He said that it takes a long time for the stones to melt. “I saw people cleaning the sidewalk with shovels,” she said.
Social media was flooded with videos and pictures of hailstones on roads, rooftops and playgrounds. “We had just finished distributing the prasad when the city was hit by a hailstorm. But the bad weather could not dampen the festive spirit at Cotton University,” jeetmoni gogoione of the puja organizers in the state university, which witnesses the highest crowd during Saraswati Puja.
The weather officials said that in winters, under the influence of the passing western disturbance, the region experiences occasional thunderstorms and hailstorms. “Neighboring Shillong has also witnessed hailstorms this winter. But in Guwahati, it was the first time,” Sunit Das, a senior scientist at IMD’s Regional Meteorological Centre, told TOI. He said the intensity of rain is likely to reduce in the region from Sunday.
Due to the rain, the temperature dropped below normal in many areas of the region. The lowest temperature was recorded in Nagaland’s capital Kohima where the temperature dropped to four degrees on Saturday.
In Shillong this figure was 5.6 degree Celsius. While the minimum temperature in Guwahati was 11.9 degrees, the maximum was 21 degrees, 3.7 degrees below normal.
Other cities where the day temperature dropped five degrees below normal were Tezpur (19.5), Dhubri (18), North Lakhimpur (16.2), Sohra (10.7) and Pasighat (16.3).
The hailstorm, which lasted for about 20 minutes from 3.45 pm, caught the returnees from here. saraswati puja festival, Unknown. The city was wrapped in a white carpet to the delight of the travellers. People staying in their homes away from the cold and rain enjoyed the unseasonal hailstorm.
Traffic was disrupted on several routes as cars could not ply due to indiscriminate rain and stone pelting. The roofs of several cars were damaged and glass was broken.
“This is the first time I have experienced hailstorms in the open. The entire Maligaon area was white. The stones were of various shapes and sizes and the white glow continued from Jalukbari to the road leading to the Kamakhya temple from Maligaon,” said A. . College teacher, Madhuri Saikia,
He said that it takes a long time for the stones to melt. “I saw people cleaning the sidewalk with shovels,” she said.
Social media was flooded with videos and pictures of hailstones on roads, rooftops and playgrounds. “We had just finished distributing the prasad when the city was hit by a hailstorm. But the bad weather could not dampen the festive spirit at Cotton University,” jeetmoni gogoione of the puja organizers in the state university, which witnesses the highest crowd during Saraswati Puja.
The weather officials said that in winters, under the influence of the passing western disturbance, the region experiences occasional thunderstorms and hailstorms. “Neighboring Shillong has also witnessed hailstorms this winter. But in Guwahati, it was the first time,” Sunit Das, a senior scientist at IMD’s Regional Meteorological Centre, told TOI. He said the intensity of rain is likely to reduce in the region from Sunday.
Due to the rain, the temperature dropped below normal in many areas of the region. The lowest temperature was recorded in Nagaland’s capital Kohima where the temperature dropped to four degrees on Saturday.
In Shillong this figure was 5.6 degree Celsius. While the minimum temperature in Guwahati was 11.9 degrees, the maximum was 21 degrees, 3.7 degrees below normal.
Other cities where the day temperature dropped five degrees below normal were Tezpur (19.5), Dhubri (18), North Lakhimpur (16.2), Sohra (10.7) and Pasighat (16.3).
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