Sudden light rain in some isolated pockets of the national Capital along with gusty winds on Wednesday evening turned the weather pleasant in the city. According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), velocity of wind was recorded at 35-36 km per hour.
The minimum temperature was recorded at 22.4 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season's average, whereas the maximum hovered around 35 degrees Celsius. “light rain has been witnessed in several parts of the city,” the Met Department said.
Dr Rajendra Jenamani, Met Scientist and weather observer for airport said that in this spell of bad weather started since May 7 for Delhi, there were two dust storms(DS)/dry thunderstorm(TS) hit airport for two consecutive nights(1st was on 7 May and it was peak at 1117pm(wind gust was 65-75kmph) while 2nd one was on 8 May, peak time 0845pm when wind gust was 60-65kmph),” Dr Jenamani explained.
“This is the first time the thunderstorm had rain spell also reported during 1600- 17 : 15 hrs at IGIA along with thunderstorm,” he added.
“Wind gusts in peak was at IGIA of 55kmph at 0430PM. Rain was 3.2mm. The last spell was on 2 May when TS accompanied with rain hit IGIA and caused flight disruption,” he added further.
Elaborating the recorded observations about wind and gusty storm, Dr Jenamani said that till there are three major spells of activities DS/TS/Rain and gusty winds at IGIA -6-11 April and May 2 and May (7 - 9 ) 2018 when flight operation affected in this season.
Meanwhile, according to the Safdarjung observatory, there were traces of rain in the last 24 hours. The humidity level recorded at 8.30 am in the city was 55 per cent.
On Tuesday, the maximum temperature was recorded at 34.7 degrees Celsius, while the minimum stood at 22 degrees Celsius.