Save water as monsoons giving away little

The recent downpour might have given residents a reason to cheer. However, an advisory coming from UT Meteorological Centre will cut short this rejoicing. Keeping track of climate changes taking place in northern region, weathermen, after studying the current pattern of monsoon, have advised people to 'save' water.

The precious asset, water, might soon be in short supply, if the water-laden cumulonimbus cloud continues to play hide-and-seek with the city and residents don't use it judiciously.
During the current monsoon season, till now, the city has received total rainfall of 77.6 mm whereas normal rainfall received, from June 1 to July 15 each year, is 272.1 mm. In the wake of 'volatile' monsoon, Met officials on Thursday predicted that less inflow of water in rivers would lead to shortage of power and the maximum damage of the prevailing dry spell would be borne by farmers.

"People should save water as this situation would lead to water shortage. Though rains will occur, regular heavy downpour isn't expected this time. After going through the rainfall data from various districts of the northern region, satellite images and national level forecast about monsoon pattern, we conclude that rainfall would be less than normal," said Chatar Singh, director, Meteorological centre.

He added that at present, Chandigarh has -77% deficit rainfall. Meanwhile, the maximum temperature recorded in the city was 37.2 degree C and the minimum was 27.6 degree C. The forecast issued by Meteorological centre stated that moderate to heavy rainfall is likely to occur at a few places in Himachal Pradesh, whereas light to moderate rainfall or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few places in Haryana and isolated places in Punjab. "There are less chances of heavy downpour in Chandigarh in the next 24 hours," another Met official added.