New Delhi: City recorded the attacks in the last 46 years this year.
The Safdarjung weather station, which recorded official readings for the capital, has recorded 1,139.8mm rainfall for this season until 5:30 a.m.
on Saturday.
The recording of seasonal rainfall is 1,155.6mm rainfall in 1975.
Track the level of pollution in your city with the Ministry of India’s Meteorology that issued an orange warning for moderate rain for Sundays, a 1975 record will likely be returned.
The average rainfall is normal from June to September if not, on the contrary 653.6mm.
The record of all time was 1,420.3mm rainfall in 1933.
Saturday was also the highest rainfall on September in the last 77 years at 383.4mm rainfall until 5:30 a.m.
The only thing when the city received more rainfall in the day in September was 417.3mm rainfall in 1944.
The normal sign for the whole September was 125.1mm rainfall.
On September 2020, Safdarjung had just recorded 20.9 mm rainfall.
RK Jenamani, a senior scientist at the IMD, said September this year has been “very unusual.” He said, “Only in 11 days, rainfall almost tripled from normal for that month.
With 19 days still left, more records may be damaged.” Despite the sudden arrival of the rainy season on July 13, the capital received rainfall 507 , 1mm in July, a surplus of 141%.
However, with rainfall only 34.8 mm, there was a deficit deficit of 47% in June.
Even though August was in a 13% deficit, it still recorded 214.5mm rainfall.
Saturday is a seventh ‘heavy’ rain spell above Delhi this season with Safdarjung Logging 94.7mm until 8:30 a.m.
on Saturday, far above 64.5mm which is marked as heavy rainfall.
This year, a record of seven days “Heavy Rain” was recorded in Safdarjung since July, beat the previous high of six years 1964.
Peak reported eight heavy rainy days.
Heavy rain events have high impact impacts such as floods.
The city again could suffer waterlogging on Sunday with the IMD issued a ‘orange’ warning for moderate rainfall.
Lightweight Rain is expected from next Monday throughout the week.
The maximum temperature on Saturday is 26.8 degrees Celsius, seven degrees below normal.
It was the lowest maximum temperature recorded in September in the last four years.
Air quality, meanwhile, remains in the ‘satisfying’ category with the overall air quality index (AQI) of 61.
Delhi: The 7th heavy rain spell makes it wet in 46 years
