Drizzle brings much-needed relief from heat in Tarn Taran

Drizzle followed by cool winds in the district provided the much-needed relief from heatwave conditions here on Tuesday. It also brought down the day temperature, which had been hovering above 40 degrees Celsius for the past few days, to 33 degrees Celsius, turning the weather pleasant, which was welcomed by every resident of the city.

Buzz returned to marketplaces, which wore a deserted look most of the day due to extreme heat. Commuters, customers and other people, who remained disappeared from roads and shops, were seen present everywhere. The pleasant weather led to a heavy rush of people in bazaars of the town. A large number of devotees paid obeisance at Darbar Sahib in Tarn Taran.

A visibly happy Kuldeep Singh, a cloth merchant at Tehsil Bazar in Tarn Taran, said during the last 10 days, he had not entertained even a single customer the whole day. He said with a drop in the temperature, streams of customers kept thronging marketplaces right from the opening of shops.

Mohtam Singh, Deputy Chief Engineer, Powercom, said even the power utility got relief with a drop in the temperature. He said the number of power faults, which was 1,572 in two days on June 13 and 14, has come down to 847 on June 16 and 17. He said the complaints regarding the overloading of transformers too has decreased resulting in fewer occurrences of power faults. The Deputy Chief Engineer said power consumption too has decreased to 20 per cent.

Charanjit Singh Bath, a farmer of Bath village, said farmers and farm labourers, who were facing great trouble in planting paddy saplings, heaved a sigh of relief today.

Chief Agriculture Officer (CAO) Harpal Singh Pannu said drizzling in the night and this morning has made the weather pleasant. Weather experts predict that the fall in the temperature and pleasant weather is just for one or two days and after that the temperature would start rising again.

Amritsar