Fresh spate of storm in UP, 23 dead
Lucknow, May 14: Dust storm, hail and lightning have claimed as many as 23 lives in the last 12 hours in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Monday.
The storm hit Etawah, Banda, Auriyya, Meerut, Kanpur rural, Kannauj, Farrukhabad and Orai districts.
Late on Sunday gusty winds, followed by dust storm had brought life to a standstill in many parts of the state. Many houses were razed to the ground, hoardings and trees uprooted and power outages reported from various cities and towns.
The relief commissioner's office, although, has confirmed only 18 deaths besides two dozen injuries in Sunday's dust storm.
District officials have been asked by Chief Minister Adityanath to ensure prompt relief, a government spokesman said.Due to the uprooting of trees, vehicular traffic on the busy G.T. road near Orai was disrupted for more than four hours.
A woman standing under a tree in Kannauj was killed as it fell on her while two persons have been reported dead from Barabanki.
Three deaths, including a child have been reported from Bulandshahr due to a wall collapse.
Five persons have been reported dead in Kasganj and one in the temple town of Vrindavan. Two persons died in Saharanpur after being struck with lightning.
One person died in Muzaffarnagar as he was hit by a tree branch when he was driving a bike.
One person was killed in Ghaziabad's Lalkuan area after a tree fell on a car and a six-year-old died in Hapur after falling in a tube well tank due to the squall.
A passerby was hit by a hoarding brought down by winds near the Stellar Jeevan Society in Noida and died while one woman was killed in Aligarh.
While one died in Sambhal, two persons were killed in Banjariya village when two minarets of a mosque were ripped off by high velocity winds and they fell on a house. One person was killed in Budaun.
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Delhi wakes up to cloudy Thursday with light rain, minimum temp at 17.6 deg C
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi woke up to a cloudy Thursday morning, with parts of the city receiving up to 12.5 mm of rainfall, while the minimum temperature stood at 17.6 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The IMD stated that Safdarjung and Lodhi Road recorded 8.2 mm of rainfall each, while the Ridge station received 8.6 mm and Palam recorded 6.2 mm.
Ayanagar recorded 7.2 mm of rainfall, and Pitampura recorded 5.5 mm.
Additionally, Mayur Vihar recorded 3 mm of rainfall, while Janakpuri received 12.5 mm from 8.30 am on Wednesday till 8.30 am on Thursday.
The weather office noted that the minimum temperature was recorded at 17.6 degrees Celsius, which is 1.1 notches above the seasonal average, while the maximum temperature is expected to settle around 29 degrees Celsius.
According to the IMD, Delhi is under a yellow alert for very light to light rainfall, thunderstorms accompanied by lightning, and gusty winds with speeds of 30 to 40 kilometres per hour.
The AQI stood in the 'moderate' category at 9 am, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of 153, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed.
According to the CPCB, an AQI between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 to 100 'satisfactory', 101 to 200 'moderate', 201 to 300 'poor', 301 to 400 'very poor', and 401 to 500 'severe'.
