Delhiites witnessed one of the wettest days in a decade on Saturday. With a rainfall of 123 millimetres, the Capital received the third highest quantity of rain for the month of July. Meanwhile, Met officials have forecasted similar weather conditions on Sunday with possibility of heavy rainfall across the city.
Also, with this the rains marked this season's heaviest rainfall on Saturday."Records show that Saturday's rainfall of 123 mm was the third highest for the time frame of 2003-2013. The highest so far was on July 10, 2003 where the city witnessed a rainfall of 133.4 mm. This was followed by 126 mm of rain on July 28 in the year 2009," said a senior Met official.
lodhi Road received the maximum rainfall as the rain gauge measured it at 127.1 mm. According to the weatherman, Sunday will also be on the receiving end of similar pattern of rainfall.
"We are expecting heavy downpour on Sunday as well as the system is completely conducive for the same. It will be a generally cloudy sky with possibility of thunder showers as well," he informed. While the maximum temperature is expected to be 32 degrees Celsius, the minimum will settle at 23 degrees. Saturday began with a cloudy sky in the morning, which turned into heavy showers from around 11 in the morning.
The downpour continued for nearly four hours drenching all parts of Delhi and NCR and ended at around 2:30 in the afternoon. The maximum temperature was recorded at 31.1 degree Celsius while the minimum was 23 degree Celsius. The maximum was three notches below the normal temperature, whereas the minimum was four degrees below normal. The humidity level reached 100 per cent at 5:30 in the evening. It later subsided to 97 per cent towards the evening.
"Saturday's high rain occurred in a small period of time which was mainly due to the movement of the monsoon trough from its south of the normal position to north to exactly over the capital by morning of the same day. The axis of monsoon trough at the mean sea level was observed through Ganganagar, Gurgaon, Gwalior, Ambikapur, Paradip and then to Bay of Bengal," said another Met official.