NEW DELHI: It's the most quoted word by meteorologists in winters western disturbance. It brings winter rains and it's a couple of months late this year, hitting western India in February instead of December.
While people in Shimla rejoice the first snow of the season and cities in the north-west enjoy a second spell of cold wave, sweeping down from the hills of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, experts say the rains are going to continue over the next few days and spread further east.
They also claim that the spell is not out of the ordinary. Western disturbance is a local name for a global phenomenon. The rest of the world calls it extra-tropical wind or storm or system.