New Delhi, March 30 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had issued a rain alert for several states, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan, on Monday, March 30. Snowfall has been predicted in isolated areas of Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Atmospheric scientist Professor Manoj Kumar Srivastava has described this fresh wet spell as a broader seasonal transition from winter to summer.

Srivastava told ANI that the current weather pattern is "a transitional phase between the winter-dominant Western Disturbances and the approaching easterly winds of the summer season."

"Consequently, when these two atmospheric systems interact, conditions such as those we are currently witnessing tend to ...