Babatpur Logs Saturday Rain Spells; Sunday Opens Misty Near 2.5 km

Babatpur’s official METARs sketch a wet Saturday and a misty Sunday morning for Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport, with a midday rain spell that cut visibility near 800 metres and easterly gusts to about 38 knots before the day eased into evening light rain and overnight mist.

The aviation weather feed for station VEBN shows Saturday, 26 September, opening with light rain and gusty winds. Around 0700 UTC a heavier spell was logged: rain, wind from about 110 degrees at 25 knots gusting 38 knots, and visibility near 800 metres. Through the midday and afternoon hours light rain continued, with temporary thunderstorm-rain conditions noted on the sequence. Between roughly 1500 and 1700 UTC evening observations still carried light rain with visibility around 2,500 metres. Overnight the field moved into mist.

Sunday morning observations for 27 September, in the first hours of the UTC day that map to early IST, show mist with visibility in the 2,500–3,000 metre band, scattered to broken cloud, temperatures around 23–26°C and altimeter settings near 1005–1008 hPa. That is a quieter open than Saturday’s washed-out midday cell, but mist and broken cloud still matter for short final and for road approaches to the airport.

For city readers the practical takeaway is local. Saturday’s Heavy to Extremely Heavy rain language on the East UP IMD board had a concrete airport counterpart in the 800-metre midday spell and the 38-knot gusts. Water on the apron, spray on the approach road and delayed outdoor ground work are the ordinary consequences of that kind of METAR. Sunday’s mist and cooler morning temperatures sit under the same moisture that filled drains and snapped wires across the district the day before.

This brief is distinct from the Friday-into-Saturday morning METAR wrap already on the desk. The sequence here starts with Saturday’s rain day and ends with Sunday morning’s mist and broken cloud. No rainfall totals in millimetres are invented from the METAR string; the figures above are the visibility, wind and temperature fields as logged.

Airport METARs are point observations at Babatpur, not a city-wide rain gauge network. A cell that sits over Lanka or Sarnath can look different from the airport strip ten kilometres out. Still, when VEBN reports 800 metres in rain with gusts near 38 knots, the same moisture feed is usually working the city. Civic tree-fall and power-outage reports from Saturday morning sit in that same feed and are covered separately.

The desk is reading the public aviation weather API for VEBN over a 48-hour window covering 26 and 27 September 2026. Readers who need the raw strings should open the official METAR feed rather than rely on secondary summaries. If a later observation revises the morning mist picture, that report will supersede this wrap. Until then, treat Saturday as the rain-and-gust day and Sunday morning as misty with broken cloud and temperatures in the mid-twenties.