Heavy rains accompanied by strong winds brought the mercury levels down in the national capital, Delhi, this morning. The city also experienced a strong squall last night which uprooted many trees. According to the Met department, Western Disturbance over northwest Pakistan and neighbourhood and upper air cyclonic circulation over Punjab and neighbourhood are responsible for this drastic change in the weather. After scorching at over 40 degree celsius in the past few days, the city is likely to experience pleasant weather over the weekend. Weatherman predicts rain and thuderstorms to continue till tomorrow. The mercury is likely to oscillate between 37 and 27 degrees today.In Uttarakhand, heavy rains accompanied by strong winds and hail storm affected the normal life in some parts of the state during last twenty four hours. One person was killed in Uttarkashi district, whereas some houses were damaged in other parts of the state. Road transport has been also disturbed following the inclement weather. Met department predicts present weather conditions may prevail in coming twenty four hours. Mercury dropped by few notches as rains lashed parts of Punjab and Haryana. Heavy showers lashed Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, in the wee hours. Ambala, Gurgaon, Sonepat, Panchkula and Panipat in Haryana also received heavy showers. After the rains, cool breeze made the weather pleasant in many places.In Uttar Pradesh, the turbulent weather has brought down temperature in eastern districts. In Gorakhpur there was darkness for about an hour this morning due to heavy clouds. The day’s maximum temperature has gone 3 to 7 degrees Celsius below normal in eastern region.