Guwahati: A hailstorm attacked the capital and his environment on Saturday afternoon muffled a lively atmosphere on the occasion of Vasant Panchami.
Assam and the Northeast have experienced unrelenting rain in the last two days due to cyclone circulation.
Hailstorm, which lasted about 20 minutes from 3:45 a.m., brought those who returned from the celebration of Saraswati Puja, unconscious.
The city was wrapped in a lot of white carpet for pleasure of tourists.
Those who are in the room, are far from cold and rain, enjoying iced ices.
Traffic was interrupted on several routes because the car could not move in the dazzling rain and pelted stones.
The roof of many cars was broken and the windshield was broken.
“This is the first time I have had an ice hail in the open.
The whole area of ​​the Maligaon is white.
The stones are different shapes and sizes and white splendor continues from Jalukbari through Maligaon to the road to the Temple of Kamakhya,” said a campus teacher, Madhuri Saikia.
He said that the stone took a long time to melt.
“I see people cleaning the sidewalk with a shovel,” he said.
Social media is full of videos and pictures of hailstones on the road, roof, and playground.
“We just finished the Prasad distribution when the hail touched the city.
But bad weather could not reduce the festive enthusiasm at the University of Cotton,” said Jeetmoni Gogoi, one of the pilgrimage organizers at the state university, who witnessed the highest foot during Puja Saraswati.
Meet officials say in winter, under influence through western disorders, the area sometimes experiences hailstorms accompanied by a storm.
“Hailstorms have been witnessed in neighboring Shillong this winter too.
But in Guwahati, it was the first time this season,” Sunit Das, a senior scientist at the center of the Regional Meteorology IMD, told TII.
He said the intensity of rain in this region tended to be reduced from Sunday.
In some areas in the region, the temperature drops below normal under the influence of rain.
The minimum temperature was recorded to be the lowest in the capital of Nagaland Kohima where the temperature dropped to four degrees on Saturday.
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In Shillong, the appropriate number is 5.6 degrees Celsius.
In Guwahati, while the minimum temperature is 11.9, the maximum is 21 degrees, 3.7 degrees below normal.
Other cities where the temperature of the day fell below the normal range was Tezpur (19.5), Dhubri (18), Lakhimpur Utara (16.2), Sohra (10.7) and Passighat (16.3).