Delhi, adjoining States and other northern States will witness heavy rainfall activities due to reduction in rainfall over Kerala and Coastal Karnataka from July 25 to 27. According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), rainfall activities will be increased over northern plains and Central India during this period.
Dr Rajendra Jenamani, Met scientist, said, “Rainfall activity is very likely to increase over central India, adjoining northern parts of peninsular India and also along the northern plains during 24-27th July with peak intensity on 25th and 26th July, 2019.”
Jenamani added, “Hence fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls are likely over Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Goa during same period.”
Explaining overall monsoon status, the MeT scientist said that a low pressure area is likely to form over coastal areas of West Bengal around July 26. “The ongoing heavy to very heavy along with extremely heavy rainfall activity over Assam and Meghalaya and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim is very likely to reduce after 24 hours.” “Widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy and extremely heavy rainfall less than 20 mm is very likely over Konkan and Goa and over Coastal Karnataka during next 24 hours and decrease thereafter,” MeT official said.
Meanwhile in Delhi, overnight showers in some areas of the national Capital contributed to high humidity levels on Tuesday morning even as the minimum temperature settled at a notch above the normal. “The minimum temperature was recorded at 28.2 degrees Celsius at 8.30 am, a notch above normal while the humidity level was 83 per cent,” a MeT department official said. The Safdarjung observatory received 3.6 mm rainfall, while no rainfall was received by Palam observatory. The Lodhi Road, Ridge area and Aya Nagar observatories recorded 4.5 mm, 25.2 mm and 1.1 mm rainfall respectively, Relative Humidity (RH) was also recorded high.