Not early enough: Met now predicts monsoon touchdown in 36 hours
New Delhi: The southwest monsoon has advanced further, covering parts of western Uttar Pradesh. The weather department has made a fresh forecast that the monsoon is expected to hit the city in the next 36 hours.
"The southwest monsoon has further advanced over the remaining parts of the north Arabian Sea, some more parts of west Uttar Pradesh, some parts of Haryana, Chandigarh, remaining parts of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, and some more parts of Punjab. The northern limit continues to pass through Barmer, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Agra, Rampur, Bijnor, Karnal and Halwara. Conditions are favourable for further advance... over some more parts of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and the remaining parts of west Uttar Pradesh during the next 36 hours," a statement from the
India Meteorological Department
said.
Delhi suffered a hot, humid day and had an overcast sky by 3pm.
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The Met had forecast rain and thunderstorms for Monday. However, only a small part of the city got a drizzle late in the evening. The base station, Safdarjung, did not record any rain on Monday till late evening, Ayanagar saw some trace of rain, Rajghat recorded 0.1mm, and Najafgarh and Mungeshpur recorded 0.5mm.
The maximum temperature at Safdarjung on Tuesday was 36.1 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal.
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It was 36.2 a day earlier. The minimum was 28.2 degrees Celsius, the same as a day earlier. The humidity oscillated between 66% and 91% and the feel-like temperature was 44.3 degrees Celsius.
According to IMD, on Wednesday, Delhi may see some respite. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 33 to 35 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.
Delhi's air quality was satisfactory on Tuesday. The air quality index (AQI) was at 95.
A day earlier it was 112.
The IMD had earlier forecast that while the entire country is expected to receive above-normal rainfall, the northwest, which is one of the four meteorological geographical regions and includes J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and UP, will receive normal rainfall. The normal range is 92 to 108% of the long-period average.
Last year, the monsoon arrived in Delhi on June 25, and the city got 228.1mm rainfall on a single day, which was the highest single-day precipitation for June since 1936.
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