Babatpur Logs Friday Rain Into Night; Saturday Opens With Gusty Rain Near 2 km

Babatpur’s official METARs show Friday’s rain did not taper cleanly at dusk. Light rain and mist ran through the day into the night at VEBN, and Saturday morning opened still wet, with easterly gusts climbing toward 35 knots and visibility stuck near two kilometres.

On Friday 25 September the station repeatedly reported light rain or mist with broken low cloud. Midday and afternoon observations sat around 3,000 metres visibility with east-northeast winds near 12 to 18 knots and occasional gusts. By late afternoon and evening the picture tightened: visibility near 2,000 metres, light rain continuing, and gusts into the high twenties. Overnight METARs through 22:30 UTC kept the same theme — about 2,000 metres, light rain, scattered and broken layers, a few cumulonimbus noted, temperature around 26–27°C and QNH near 997–1000 hPa.

Saturday morning local time continued the wet pattern. The 06:30 IST observation (260100Z) showed rain, wind 110 degrees at 18 knots, visibility 2,000 metres, temperature 25°C. Half an hour later rain was still on, with wind 100 degrees at 22 gusting 34 knots and a few CB at 3,000 feet. By 07:30 IST the gust peak reached about 35 knots with light rain still reported. The 08:00 IST frame held light rain, 23 knots sustained, visibility 2,000 metres, temperature 26°C and QNH 999 hPa.

That sequence is distinct from Thursday’s day-into-evening rain and Friday morning’s earlier gusty open. Friday’s product was a full wet day that refused to dry after dark; Saturday’s open adds a sharper easterly gust signature under the same low broken deck. Pressure values dipping toward 997–999 hPa overnight fit a moist, unsettled column rather than a clearing ridge.

For travellers the practical notes are short. Arrival and departure windows on Saturday morning face reduced visibility and crosswind-capable easterlies. Surface movement on the wet apron needs the usual monsoon caution — painted markings fade under standing water and brake action changes. Inland, the same moist easterly feed sits under the Extremely Heavy East UP warning issued Saturday morning, so city roads and the airport approach are reading from one weather system.

No rainfall total is invented from METARs alone; these are station weather reports, not a rain-gauge ledger. City millimetre totals and the IMD subdivision table are covered in separate briefs. This desk is logging the official VEBN string for Friday into Saturday morning so Banaras readers have the airport’s own weather trail beside the warning board, without borrowed colour from other stations. Passengers with early Saturday connections should confirm status with their airline before leaving for Babatpur on wet roads.