Heavy rain pushes August into ‘excess' zone: Delhi breaches annual rainfall record; temperature dips 7°C, 350+ flights hit
NEW DELHI: The city was drenched by the fifth heaviest rainfall of the year on Thursday, knocking down trees, slowing traffic and delaying over 350 flights.
The downpour meant that Delhi has recorded a total rainfall of 254.8mm till 5.30pm on Thursday against the August monthly normal of 233.1mm.
The city also went past its annual rainfall mark of 774.4mm, the weather log showing 818.1mm to date - the fastest Delhi has crossed the annual mark since 2021.
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Aug will continue to be wet with the Met office predicting light rain till Aug 20, including some spells of very light to light rain on Independence Day.
The city's base weather station at Safdarjung recorded 13.1mm of precipitation in the 24 hours till 8.30am, but logged 79.4mm over the next nine hours till 5.30pm.
Experts attributed Thursday's driving rain to the monsoon trough moving closer to the city. "The monsoon trough moved south of Delhi," explained Mahesh Palawat, vice-president, climate change and meteorology, Skymet. "With easterly winds to persist and a low-pressure area also building up, we will continue to see scattered light to moderate rains in Delhi over the next three to four days.
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Most city weather stations logged moderate rain on Thursday, with only some recording heavy rainfall.
Palam logged 49.4mm till 8.30 am and 45mm in the next nine hours. Lodhi Road recorded 12.6mm till 8.30am, but added 66.8mm to that by 5.30pm. Ayanagar recorded 57.4mm till 8.30am and 66mm subsequently, while the Ridge recorded 17.4mm till 8.30am and 37.2mm thereafter till the evening. In west Delhi's Pusa, the station measured rainfall at 5mm till 8.30am only to see 49mm of additional precipitation till 5.30pm.
The maximum temperature fell by over seven degrees Celsius.
The maximum temperature was at 27.7 degrees Celsius, a full six below normal and over 7 degrees lower than the 35 degrees Celsius of the previous day. The minimum temperature was 23.6 degrees Celsius, which was three degrees below normal and also almost three degrees lower than Wednesday's 26.8 degrees.
According to the weather department, the maximum temperature on Friday is likely to be 31-33 degrees Celsius.
The rain helped Delhi's air quality return to the 'satisfactory' category from the 'moderate' of Wednesday. The AQI, on a scale of 0 to 500, read 90 on Thursday against 120 a day earlier.
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