New Delhi, Nov 15: Heavy rains lashed parts of south India on Monday, resulting in the death of three people and widespread property damage in Kerala, while Kashmir in the north reeled under sub-zero night temperatures.
Rainfall or thundershowers were also witnessed at many places over Gangetic West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, coastal Karnataka, Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Isolated places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Telangana, Maharashtra, Goa, and Lakshadweep received showers as well, the weather office said in a bulletin.
In Delhi, the air quality deteriorated marginally on Monday and no improvement is predicted over the next three days even though the share of stubble burning in the city’s pollution stood at 10 per cent, the lowest since Diwali (November 4).
The national capital’s 24-hour average air quality index stood at 353 at 4 pm. It recorded a maximum temperature of 26.4 degrees Celsius, and the minimum temperature settled at 10.3 degrees Celsius.
The Ministry of Earth Sciences’ forecasting agency SAFAR said the air quality is unlikely to improve on Tuesday as the transport-level wind speed is increasing resulting in more intrusion of stubble burning-related pollutants into Delhi.
Several areas in Kashmir were engulfed by a layer of fog on Monday morning as the mercury went below the freezing point. Srinagar recorded a low of zero degree Celsius — up from minus 0.9 degrees Celsius the previous night.
Officials said Pahalgam recorded a low of minus four degrees Celsius, the coldest in Kashmir. (PTI)
