Guwahati, Feb 5: Adding more bite to the unusually cold and overcast conditions that have been persisting in the city for the last few days, a sever hailstorm lasting for about 15 minutes lashed the city disrupting the celebrations of Saraswati Puja while people on the streets were forced to run for cover.
The hailstorm that started around 3.45 pm left a carpet on white pebbles on the ground causing the temperature to go down further.
Meanwhile, the atmospheric temperatures are expected to dip further across the Northeast with the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) at Borjhar here predicting more rainfall in the coming days, accompanied by thunderstorms with lightning at isolated places in the region, including Assam and Meghalaya.
“Thunderstorm with lightning is likely to occur at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on Saturday while dense fog is very likely to occur at isolated places Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on Sunday,” the summary of observations recorded on Friday morning by the Met department said.
Besides, dense fog is very likely to occur at isolated places in eastern Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on Monday.
