The weather in Punjab is going to be normal for the next 48 hours. Some districts will see normal rainfall. At the same time, after good rains last week, some conditions have improved in the state. After which, 9 percent less rain than normal was seen in July. It is estimated that more than normal rain will be seen in the month of August.
According to the information released by the Meteorological Center, there has been a slight drop of 0.6 degrees in the temperature of the state. After which the temperature of the state remains 3.4 degrees less than normal. At the same time, the highest temperature of 33.5 degrees was recorded in Gurdaspur.
At the same time, till 5.30 pm on Thursday, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Pathankot, and Bathinda in the state received about 1 to 2 mm of rain. At the same time, 4 mm rain was recorded in Hoshiarpur, 5.5 mm in Moga, and 3 mm in Rupnagar.
Clouds rained 146 mm in the month of July
Punjab received 9 percent less rain than normal in the month of July. From 1st to 31st July, the state received 146.7 mm of rain, whereas normally it is recorded to be 161.4 mm. Good rain was seen in the last week of July, due to which the situation improved slightly.
How was the monsoon in the districts of Punjab in the month of July-
Yellow Zone- Kapurthala received the least rainfall in Punjab. Here, it rained 76 percent less than normal. Here, only 39.3 mm of rain fell; otherwise, 163.6 mm is normal here.
Red Zone – Those cities were categorized as such, where less than 20 percent of rainfall occurred. These include Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr, Rupnagar, Mohali, SBS Nagar, Barnala, Sangrur, Muktsar, and Fazilka districts.
Green Zone– Cities in this category experienced 20 percent more or 20 percent less rainfall. Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib, Patiala, Faridkot, Bathinda and Mansa districts have been placed in this category.