New Delhi:
Rain lashed Delhi-NCR all through Friday with the town recording its highest December rainfall within the final 15 years and the mercury dropping sharply to 14.6 diploma celsius, the climate division stated.
The rain started late Thursday round 2.30 am and continued all through the day, it stated.
In response to Indian Meteorological Division (IMD) knowledge between within the final 24 hours until 8.30 am on Friday, the town logged 9.1 mm of rainfall.
The observatory at Safdarjung — the nationwide capital’s main climate station — recorded an extra 30.2 mm of rainfall between from 8.30 am to five.30 pm on Friday, as per the info.
The whole rainfall for December stands at 42.8 mm, marking the best rainfall this month within the final 15 years, based mostly on knowledge from 2009 to 2024 out there on the climate division’s web site.
In the meantime, the all-time highest December rainfall was recorded in 1884, when the town acquired 134.4 mm of rain.
The observatory at Palam registered 31.4 mm rainfall, 34.2 mm in Lodhi Highway, 33.4 mm in Ridge, 39 mm in Delhi College and 35 mm in Pusa until 5:30 pm on Friday.
For comparability, the town’s December rainfall in 2023 was hint, whereas in 2022 it was 0.0 mm, 2021 noticed 9.6 mm, and 2020 recorded simply 1.6 mm. In 2019, Delhi recorded 33.9 mm of rainfall in December, which now stands because the second-highest within the final 15 years.
Met officers stated an energetic western disturbance and its interplay with easterly winds have been inflicting gentle to average rainfall and thunderstorms over northwest and central India, together with the NCR areas of Delhi.
The rain prompted waterlogging and site visitors snarls in lots of areas throughout the town, with the Municipal Company of Delhi Central Management Room receiving a complete of 13 complaints, 9 for waterlogging and 4 for fallen bushes.
The Public Works Division (PWD) acquired one name for waterlogging and one for a fallen tree, the officers stated. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) stated that by 7 PM they’d not acquired any calls relating to waterlogging or fallen bushes.
Mercury additionally dropped to 9.5 diploma celsius, due to the rain, marking the bottom most temperature within the final 5 years. On Thursday, the utmost temperature was recorded at 24.1 diploma celsius, in line with knowledge from the IMD.
The IMD knowledge confirmed that in 2023 the bottom daytime temperature drop in December was 15.9 diploma Celsius, 15.6 diploma Celsius in December, 2022, 17.8 diploma Celsius in 2021, 15.2 diploma Celsius 2020 and in 14.3 diploma Celsius in 2019.
The division stated a typically cloudy sky with intermittent rain is probably going on Saturday.
Moreover, one or two spells of sunshine rain is predicted throughout the early morning to forenoon, adopted by a cloudy sky for the remainder of the day, it added.
The predominant floor wind is predicted to be from the southeast route with a velocity of lower than 4 kmph throughout the morning hours. Smog or shallow fog is predicted in most areas, with average fog in remoted locations throughout the morning, the climate workplace stated.
The wind velocity is predicted to extend, reaching lower than 8 kmph from the northeast route throughout the afternoon, earlier than reducing to lower than 4 kmph from the northeast throughout the night and evening. Smog or shallow fog can also be doubtless within the night and evening, it added.
The utmost and minimal temperatures are anticipated to settle at 15 and 12 diploma celsius, respectively, it stated.
The 24-hour Air High quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 353 at 4 pm on Friday and of the 35 monitoring stations, one at Nehru Nagar recorded air high quality within the “extreme” class, whereas the remaining have been within the “very poor” and “poor” classes, the info from the SAMEER app confirmed.
An AQI between zero and 50 is taken into account ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘passable’, 101 and 200 ‘average’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘extreme’.
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