Parts of the national Capital on Monday afternoon received a short spell of rains bringing much needed respite from the muggy weather conditions that had been prevailing over the last few days.
The maximum temperature was recorded at 36.9 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average, while the minimum settled at 27.1 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the year.
The Safdarjung Observatory, considered the official marker for the capital, recorded 1 mm rainfall till 5.30 pm. The Palam observatory received traces of rainfall while Pitampura received 77.5 mm of rainfall. The Delhi University received 11.4 mm rainfall whereas Najafgarh received 4 mm of rainfall.
The weatherman has forecast generally cloudy sky for Tuesday with the possibility of light rain or thundershowers. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to settle around 36 and 27 degrees Celsius, respectively.
Following the rainfall in parts of Delhi, waterlogging was reported at some places in the city leading to traffic snarls. The Delhi Traffic Police took to twitter to inform and alert commuters about the congestion and plan their journeys accordingly.
"Traffic is affected on New Rohtak Road in both carriageways due to waterlogging at Anand Parbat T-Point. Kindly avoid the stretch," it said in a tweet.In another tweet, the traffic police informed that the traffic was heavy at Najafgarh Firni road due to waterlogging and urged them to avoid the stretch.
Delhiites woke up to a humid Monday morning and the relative humidity at 8.30 AM was 75 per cent.
However, the sky became overcast in the afternoon and rains descended from the dark clouds. The monsoon embraced Delhi in an impressive manner on June 30 but rains had repeatedly given the capital a miss since then.
The Safdarjung Observatory had recorded just 2.6 mm of rainfall in the last 10 days. It had gauged 144.3 mm of rainfall against a normal of 126.7 mm since June 1, when the monsoon season starts. Of this, 117.2 mm came in just 24 hours ending at 8:30 am on July 1.
While just 2 mm of rainfall occurred in the next three days (July 1-July 3), the Met office on July 4 issued a yellow alert for July 5 and an orange alert for July 6, which was later shifted to July 7.
Earlier, on Sunday, Mahesh Palawat, vice president (meteorology and climate change), of Skymet Weather had said that Delhi would not get any rain on Monday and Tuesday.
Before the rainfall on Monday, the IMD had issued colour-coded alerts on multiple occasions over the last six days, but Delhi remained completely dry.On July 4, the Met office issued a "yellow" alert for July 5 and an "orange" alert for July 6, which was later shifted for July 7.