Chandigarh, May 4
It was a pleasant surprise for the residents of Chandigarh as the city beautiful received early showers providing much-needed relief to them.
Though the weather was clear in the morning, clouds gathered around 8 am and it rained.
I don’t know how much it will affect the weather, but it felt good to see the rain in the city after almost two months,” said Deep Sidhu, a resident of Sector 9. North India had experienced the worst heatwave conditions in the last few days . A heatwave is declared when the maximum temperature is over 40 degrees Celsius and at least 4.5 notches above normal. The IMD in a bulletin earlier had predicted dust storm and thunderstorms in isolated places over Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi between on May 4.