Delhi Rain, Cooler Temperatures Bring Relief

Delhiites woke up to a cloudy and slightly cooler morning on Wednesday. According to the weather update issued from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), there will be light to moderate rains accompanied by thunder all evening and night. Wind speeds would be gusty, going 40-50 km per hour and touching 60 km per hour during thunderstorms.

Yesterday, temperature Peek was recorded at 36.2°C in Delhi, while the minimum watered down to a pleasant 24.2°C, nearly 3-4 degrees below the usual for the season. The weather change offered some relief from the scorching heat. Rainfall during the day in different parts of Delhi was from 20 to 57 mm, with Palam and Pusa recording the heaviest. Humidity went up to 100%, making it somewhat cool and clammy. Sons joined the story with light winds this morning. However, strong easterly winds hitting 37 km/h came in the past 24 hours. Sunset will be at 7:22 this evening, and sunrise will dawn at 5:24 tomorrow morning.

Offering another forecast from the IMD for the upcoming days: June 19 will have partly cloudy skies holding light showers with mild thunderstorms to build up in the later hours. It'll be generally cloudy with occasional light rains on the 20th and 21st while more intense rainfall, thunderstorms might just start coming back between the 22nd and 24th. A disadvantage will be that no heatwave is in the forecasts for the coming days.

Different parts of Delhi-NCR, including Noida, Gurugram, Ghaziabad, and Faridabad, are all expected to witness the common weather: cloudy, with sprinkled chances of rain or thunderstorms.

Delhiite seem to be glad with the continuous cloud cover and scattered rainfall, which bring so much relief from the summer sun and conjecture that the monsoon is knocking at the door. Authorities remain on alert and watch the developments closely, especially with active systems at Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh that would aid further movement of the monsoon.