New Delhi: While the meeting department has issued a vigilant “orange” for heavy rain on Sunday, then the day later that the sky opened above the capital, gave Delhi the first day of heavy rain this season and the coolest July day in seven years.
After a strong morning bath, the weather station Pangkalan Delhi, Safdarjung, has recorded 69.6mm rain until 8:30 a.m.
on Monday.
Palam has recorded 99.3mm and Narela 104mm.
From 8:30 a.m., Palam added 66.6mm more in the next nine hours.
Najafgarh, who got 95mm until 8:30 a.m., 64.5mm rain in the next nine hours.
In accordance with the Indian meteorological department, more than 64.5mm in a day is “heavy” rainfall.
At a maximum temperature of only 26.5 degrees Celsius, eight degrees below normal, this is the coolest July day in Delhi in seven years, said IMD.
The last lower maximum was recorded on July 30, 2014, at 24.9 degrees Celsius.
The rain cleans the air, with the overall overall air quality index of Delhi down to 62, at the lower end of the “satisfying” category, an increase from AQI on Sunday from 94.
Expect the intensity of rain to weaken for the next few days Srivastava, head of the Meteorological Meteorological Meteorological Department The Meteorological Department, said the rainy season in South Delhi on Sunday, but began to shift north around 2:30 a.m.
on Sunday afternoon.
“We saw two light rain spells above Safdarjung on Sunday.
However, the monsun trough shifted to Delhi only on Monday morning.
The peak intensity was seen between 6am and 10am, with a number of stations that recorded heavy rainfall.
At night , the trough has shifted further north and therefore no rain looks at night, “said Srivastava.
For the purpose of recording, the Indian Meteorology Department follows a 24-hour cycle from 8.30 in the morning one day until 8:30 a.m.
This means the station in Delhi is like Najafgarh and Palam records ‘heavy’ rainfall.
Until 8:30 a.m.
on Monday, Palam, Pitampura, Najafgarh, Narella and Safdarjung all recorded “heavy” rainfall.
The Indian Meteorology Department estimates that light rain above Delhi on Tuesday, with isolated parts receive a moderate bath.
There is no heavy rainfall expected in the coming days, he said.
“Some stations can record light shower, take the 24-hour counting they pass 64.5mm, but the intensity of rain will be much lower throughout Delhi.
Instead, we will record more rain towards Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand because the trough is now moving towards the foothills of the hills.
, “Srivastava added.
Safdarjung, considered a base station for the capital, has received 182mm rainfall so far this month, while the normal mark for rainfall until July 19 is 114.1mm.
The monsoon touched the capital of this year about 16 days late, with the onset stated above the city on July 13.
Delhi has recorded good ‘moderate’ rainfall on July 13 and July 14, with two stations – Pitampura and Ridge ‘Heavy’ on July 14 in the first half of the month, the capital recorded five days ‘heatwave’, but since then nine rainy days , Watch Delhi: Car sink as a road collapsed in Dwarka
Delhi got the first heavy rainy day of the season
