New Delhi, Mar 6 (IANS): Vehicle owners are advised to park their vehicles away from trees and hoardings as thunderstorms are expected to hit Delhi-NCR region on Friday.

As per the weather advisory for Noida and Delhi-NCR, thunderstorms are likely to hit the region from Thursday to Saturday.

The thunderstorms are likely to peak on Friday afternoon. The wind speed is likely to touch 50 km per hour.

As a result, trees and hoardings may get damaged. As per the advisory, owners are advised to park vehicles away from trees and hoardings and hailstorms too may follow.

According to Skymet Weather, in North India where a western disturbance is over Jammu and Kashmir. Its induced cyclonic circulation is over northwest Rajasthan.

A trough from this cyclonic circulation is extending up to East Bihar.

"We expect fairly widespread rains over hills of Western Himalayas right from Jammu and Kashmir to Uttarakhand with chances of landslides, mudslides and isolated hailstorm," Skymet Weather said.

Similar rains and hailstorms are likely over Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, North Rajasthan, Delhi, and multiple parts of West Uttar Pradesh, it added.