light showers occurred in the State capital after a scorching heat was witnessed on Friday; the light showers provided relief from the harsh weather conditions but according to the Met department city people would not receive any respite from the scorching heat for the next 2-3 days as the monsoon activities have dampened.
More thundershowers would be witnessed in the lull monsoon activity period. City received 17.3 mm of rainfall till Friday evening. The city would receive more rains due to local system formation and for heavy rain systems are not visible at the moment. The city is witnessing intermittent rainfall due to moisture incursion but for heavy rain the city will have to wait.
By this time of the season around 23.74 cm rainfall would have been witnessed but only 6.56 cm of rainfall has been received which is 30 per cent of the normal rainfall. The average rainfall in the season is 109 cm and till date around 7 per cent rainfall has been witnessed. Met officials have told that active monsoon systems are not visible. System over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea are becoming active but the system formed is at very far distance and impact will take time to reach the state.
The system would induce rains around July 13 and would remain till July 16 during which heavy rains would be witnessed. In the absence of active system clear sky was visible and sun shine was intense. With the advent of the evening due to moisture incursion cloud cover was witnessed.
According to the Met department in the year 2002 city received .1 mm of rainfall from July 1 to July 10 and later the city received the lowest rainfall in the year which was 4.28 mm. The highest rainfall till July 10 was recorded in 2007 at 29.14 cm. Met department has claimed that rains during July 13,14 and 15 would cover the deficit.