New Delhi: Reeling under the heat and high humidity, Delhi-NCR residents can finally get relieved rain.
The MET department says the rainy season is delayed for a long time it is likely to regulate the area on Sunday, bringing some bathrooms behind which will lower the temperature for the next few days.
However, Delhiit will be alert.
So far, the rainy season has repeatedly failed to maintain – more precisely, the Meteorological Department of India – dating the capital.
The IMD initially estimated Monsoon’s arrival around mid-June, which would make it one of the earliest onset above Delhi.
The next onset window, July the first week, also passed without signs of rain bearing systems.
If the rainy season finally regarding the city on Sunday, it will be the most delayed arrival in 19 years.
Only light rain which is most likely for the next 4 Daydelhi has seen more delayed monsoon onset in 2002, when it reached the city on July 19.
On Saturday, the department meets Delhi is expected to see the onset of Southwest Monsun on Sunday, forecasting its progress above Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan in the next 24 hours.
While IMD initially estimated light rain above Delhi on Saturday and moderate bathing from Sunday and so on, the intensity of the expected rain has been reduced, with only light rainfall from Sunday to Wednesday.
“The lower level of the East Wind from Bengal Bay has continued to the northwest, reaching Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan Timur, like today,” said IMD on Saturday in his daily monsoon bulletin, adding that the conditions were beneficial for “further progress of the Monsun Southwest over Delhi, the remaining parts of Uttar Pradesh, some parts of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan for the next 24 hours “.
“The condition also becomes profitable for further progress from Southwest Monsun over the remaining parts of the country, for the next 48 hours,” he added.
R K Jenamani, scientists at the IMD, said that several parts of the city can receive a very lightly insulated mantra on Saturday night, however, there are greater rain opportunities on Sundays, with the expected rainy activities in the afternoon and evening.
“It is hoped that going forward to Delhi in the next 24 hours and the onset will be declared based on when Delhi is fully covered,” said Jenamani.
Since July 1, IMD has estimated that Monsoon is likely to be about Delhi on July 10.
Initial forecast from the beginning (mid-June) was thwarted by the rainy season literally on the doorstep of Delhi-NCR.
The normal date for onset of monsoon in Delhi is June 27.
Last year, it crashed into the city two days early, on June 25.
Capital records a maximum temperature of 39.8 degrees Celsius on Saturday in Safdarjung, Delhi base station.
This is four degrees above normal.
The moisture level also remains high, oscillating between 46% and 77%.
Najafgarh is the warmest location in Delhi, with a maximum at 40.7 degrees Celsius, IMD data shows.
With the monsoon playing hooky and blazing the west wind blowing for several days, the city has had six days 40 degrees-plus in July.
Last year, July only saw one day when 2019 and 2018 each had two.
However, with the rainy season which is predicted to finally arrive, Met Office said the maximum Sunday is likely to drop to 35 degrees C, which can then dip 32 degrees C on Tuesday.