Delhi wakes up to humid morning, light rain expected today
India | July 04, 2022 12:31 ISTThe minimum temperature settled at 27.4 degrees Celsius, while the maximum temperature is expected to hover around 36 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature settled at 27.4 degrees Celsius, while the maximum temperature is expected to hover around 36 degrees Celsius.
Delhi Monsoon rains: Pre-monsoon convection may lead to light rainfall in Delhi on Wednesday. The IMD has issued an orange alert for June 30.
The city is likely to witness cloudy sky and light to moderate rain till June 21, the weather office said
Three people were killed in a building collapse and a body was retrieved from a flooded underpass in Haryana's Gurgaon district, police said on Monday as several parts of the millennium city of high-rise buildings and glass towers came underwater with images of people wading through waterlogged roads doing the rounds on social media.
Incessant rainfall in the national capital led to waterlogging and traffic snarls on several road stretches, including ITO, Ring Road and Mathura Road, while a person drowned in a waterlogged rail underpass in Pul Prahladpur while clicking selfies.
The much-awaited Southwest Monsoon finally arrived in Delhi on Tuesday morning bringing respite from scorching summer temperatures.
According to IMD data, the monsoon covered Delhi 29 times in June and 33 times in July.
The IMD said lower-level easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal have extended northwestwards, reaching up to Delhi, Haryana and east Rajasthan as on Saturday.
In some good news for Delhiites, the India Meteorological Department on Wednesday said the monsoon is likely to reach the national capital three to four days earlier than the usual date of June 27.
The IMD said light rains were expected on Wednesday and Thursday after which the delayed monsoon will set in.
Temperatures rose marginally in some parts of the national capital on Thursday due to prevailing dry conditions and rain activity due to a fresh western disturbance is likely next week, officials said.
"The good is news is the factors that aid the progress of the monsoon, including the southwesterly winds and the Somali jet stream, are gradually becoming active," IMD's regional weather forecasting chief Kuldeep Srivastava said.
Rain and thundershowers were observed at most places over Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, East Rajasthan and east Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. However, the weather department is yet to declare the onset of monsoon over Delhi.
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