Parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) witnessed a sudden change in weather on Sunday evening as dust storms, rain, and thunder lashed parts of the region bringing the mercury two notches below the season’s average to 37.4 degrees Celsius.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted partly cloudy skies with very light rain and drizzle at a few places during the day.
Delhiites woke up to a pleasant Sunday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 21.4 degrees Celsius, four notches below normal.
The relative humidity oscillated between 37 and 82 per cent. The observatory at Palam recorded trace rain between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm.
For Monday, the IMD has forecast partly cloudy skies with strong surface winds reaching speeds of 30-40 kilometres an hour. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to hover around 38 and 23 degrees Celsius, respectively.
On Saturday, the minimum temperature in Delhi settled at 21 degrees Celsius and the maximum at 35.1 degrees.Delhi has received over 200 per cent excess rainfall in the pre-monsoon period — March 1 to May 31 — so far due to back-to-back western disturbances in the last two weeks.
The Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi’s primary weather station, has recorded 221 per cent more precipitation — 119 mm against a normal of 37.1 mm — during this time.