Weatherman has forecast rain or thundershowers in most parts of West Bengal for the next two days Cloudbursts claimed six lives in Uttarakhand’s Tehri and Uttarkashi districts while there were scattered rain in other States, Odisha and Bihar, bringing down the mercury. A child died in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnore district as a wall fell on him during rain and thundershower. Isolated areas in the eastern part of the State received heavy rain. There were light overnight rain in the national Capital too which led to a significant drop in the mercury. The city recorded a maximum temperature of 36.7 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average. The Safdarjung observatory, reading of which is considered as the official figure for the city, received 0.4 mm rainfall till 8-30 a.m. The MeT department forecast partly cloudy sky in Delhi on Monday. Dust storm and thunderstorm, accompanied by squall, is likely to occur. The maximum temperatures in other three metropolitan cities of Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai were 36.1, 40.3, 35.4 degrees Celsius, respectively. In Rajasthan, isolated places of Jaipur division received light rain in the last 24 hours. Churu, recording a maximum of 43.2 degrees Celsius, was the hottest, followed by Sriganganagar which recorded a high of 42.7 degrees Celsius, the MeT department said. Dust storm accompanied with light rain are expected to occur at isolated areas in the State during the next 24 hours. Moderate to heavy rain lashed a few places in Haryana and Punjab following which maximum temperatures on Sunday dropped sharply. Chandigarh recorded a maximum of 33.2 degrees Celsius, down six notches against normal. In Uttarakhand four persons, including three women, were swept away in incidents of mudslide when a series of cloudbursts hit several villages in Chinyalisaur at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday, SDM Vijay Nath Shukla said. The body of 14-year-old Bharti, of Kireth village, who was swept away by waters following the cloudburst on Saturday was recovered on Sunday from Kothiyaada village in Tehri district, another official said. A 15-year-old boy was killed on Saturday as cloudbursts in Ghansali area damaged hundreds of houses in over half a dozen villages of Balganga Valley in the State. In Uttar Pradesh, Priyanshu (11), who had come to his maternal grandparents’ home in Bijnore, was killed when a wall of the house fell on him following heavy rain. The State witnessed light to moderate rain and thundershowers at a few places while isolated areas of its eastern parts received heavy rain and thundershowers. Banda recorded a maximum temperature of 43.8 degrees Celsius, the highest in U.P. However, intense heatwave continued unabated in western Odisha, while in the coastal belt of the State the mercury dropped considerably following rainfall in some places. The maximum temperature in Bhubaneswar dropped to 34.7 degrees Celsius from Saturday’s 38.8 degrees Celsius, the MeT office said, adding the State capital received about 7.9 mm rainfall. Rain lashed isolated parts of Bihar. Its capital Patna received 32.8 mm of rainfall, while Gaya, recording a maximum temperature of 38 degrees Celsius, was the hottest place in the State. The weatherman has forecast rain or thundershowers in most parts of West Bengal for the next two days as day temperatures remained normal or below average in the State on Monday. In the Northeast, isolated places of Assam and Meghalaya are “very likely” to receive heavy rain in the next 24 hours, while Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Sikkim, may witness thunder squall. - PTI