When The Sky Falls, The City Stalls: Monsoon Routine Plays Out On Loop
The rain caused waterlogging, disrupted traffic and led to diversions of six Delhi-bound flights — four to Jaipur and two to Lucknow.
Flightradar24, a live flight tracking website, stated that over 300 flights were delayed at Delhi airport, with an average delay of 38 minutes. The Met department has forecast more overnight rain and light to moderate showers on Thursday. Rain activity is expected to be subdued from Friday onwards.
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No rainfall was recorded from 8.30am to 8.30pm on Wednesday, but from 6pm onwards the downpour started.
The rainfall was uneven.
Najafgarh logged the highest rainfall at 60mm between 8.30am and 5.30pm, followed by Ayanagar that got 50.5mm and Pragati Maidan 37.7mm.
During the same period, Safdarjung, the city's base station, recorded 1.4mm, Palam received 14.4mm, Pusa 30.5mm, Janakpuri 4mm, DU's north campus 22mm, Naraina 6.5mm, and Mungeshpur 7mm.
IMD had issued a yellow alert for light to moderate rain for the day, but at 3.45pm, officials upgraded the alert to orange for only northwest and northeast Delhi.
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At 6pm, IMD issued an orange alert for the entire city for light to moderate rain. As the downpour began in parts of Delhi, IMD elevated the alert to red at 6.30pm, indicating moderate to heavy rainfall.
IMD scientist Naresh Kumar said: "Delhi received rain due to two upper air cyclonic circulations over north Haryana and another over northwest Uttar Pradesh and shifting of the monsoon trough towards north of its normal position.
The monsoon trough is expected to remain in the same direction on Thursday." He added that the trough is expected to shift from Friday, thereby weakening the rain activity in Delhi for the next few days.
The Met department has not issued any colour-coded warning for the next six days. IMD has predicted that there are chances of light to moderate rain on Thursday, while the city may receive very light to light rain from Friday to July 15.
The maximum temperature dipped on Wednesday and touched 35.6 degrees Celsius, one degree below normal. It was 37 degrees Celsius a day earlier. However, the feel-like temperature was higher at 43.4 degrees Celsius at 5.30pm on Wednesday. The relative humidity oscillated between 62% and 81%. The minimum settled at 26.4 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal.
Following the rain, the maximum temperature is expected to dip to 31-33 degrees Celsius on Thursday.
As no significant rain activity is predicted from Friday onwards, the mercury may touch 34-36 degrees Celsius by Saturday.
Delhi's air quality, meanwhile, continued to remain satisfactory for the 14th consecutive day. The AQI was 81 on Wednesday. It was 98 a day earlier. According to the Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi, which is the forecasting body under the Union ministry of earth sciences, the air quality is likely to stay in the satisfactory category till July 12.
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