Gurgaon swelters as humidity soars, maximum temperature rises to 35.4°C
The maximum temperature climbed to 35.4°C from 33.8°C a day earlier.
Despite a partly cloudy sky, most parts of the city stayed dry, and the sunshine during the day only worsened the discomfort.
"It was humid and sticky all day. The clouds gave some hope in the morning, but the sun came out strong by noon," said Shruti Sinha, a resident of Sushant Lok-1.
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Weather officials said while intense rainfall is unlikely, light to moderate rain is expected over the next two days, accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning, which may help keep temperatures in check.
Thereafter, very light to light rain is likely to continue through the weekend. A yellow alert has been issued for Wednesday across the city.
"While the monsoon will remain active over the central part of the country, rain activity over the region will be on the lighter side, but isolated areas in the state may see heavy rainfall over the next two days. Temperature is not expected to rise significantly over the next few days, but humidity may add to discomfort," an IMD official said.
For Wednesday, the weather will be generally cloudy with a few spells of rain and thunderstorms. The minimum and maximum temperatures are expected to hover around 23 and 32 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, even after the arrival of the southwest monsoon in Delhi on June 29, intense rain has been eluding it. The city is now facing a rain deficit of 20%.
Among all the districts, only Southwest Delhi has received excess rainfall while North and Northwest Delhi have been placed in the large-deficit category.
However, India Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert for light to moderate rain on Wednesday. From 8.30am to 5.30pm on Tuesday, only Mungeshpur station received 2mm of rainfall.
Delhi received 75.6mm of rainfall compared to the normal 94.1mm during the ongoing monsoon period from June 1 to July 7. IMD has marked five districts as deficit while two districts are in normal, two in large deficit and one in excess categories.
No district has been placed in the large-excess category.
Southwest Delhi, which received the most monsoon showers, logged 149.6mm of rainfall against the normal 101.6mm, with 47% excess so far. It is followed by adjoining West Delhi, which saw normal rainfall at 99.3mm. New Delhi was also placed in the normal category at 89.9mm rainfall so far.
North Delhi has witnessed the least rainfall, logging just 11mm rainfall so far against the normal 88mm.
It has been placed in the large-deficit category. Northwest Delhi also occupied a place in the same category, with the district receiving 10mm of rainfall compared to the normal 71.1mm. The districts that have recorded deficit rainfall are Central, East, Northeast, South and Southeast.
IMD classifies rainfall as deficit when it is more than -19%. If the rainfall is between -19% and 19%, it is classified as normal, and between 20% and 59% is considered excess. The category is large excess when the rainfall is 60% more than normal.
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