NEW DELHI: Parts of the city received rain on Monday. The monsoon is expected to arrive in Delhi in 48 hours. The India Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert for light to moderate rain and thunderstorm for Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to IMD, Safdarjung, which is the city's base station, logged 4.1 mm of rainfall between 8.30am and 5.30pm. Lodhi Road received 4.3mm of rainfall during the same period.
"Conditions are favourable for the further advance of the southwest monsoon over the remaining parts of the north Arabian Sea, some more parts of Rajasthan, Punjab, some parts of Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, remaining parts of west Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and remaining parts of Jammu during the next two days," IMD said in its bulletin on Monday. The normal monsoon onset date for Delhi is June 27.
Delhi is likely to get rain over the next seven days.
The city has already received excess rainfall before the arrival of the monsoon — 80mm till Monday when the month's normal is 74.1mm.
The maximum temperature on Monday was 36.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal. The minimum settled at 28.2 degrees Celsius, which is near normal for this time of the year. The relative humidity oscillated between 60% and 89%.
The monsoon reached Delhi on June 28 last year. The city saw a rare day of "extremely heavy rainfall" — 228.1mm on a single day. The monsoon reached Delhi on June 25 in 2023, and Safdarjung logged 48.3mm of rainfall that year.
On the other hand, a five-day streak of consecutive days of satisfactory air quality index ended after the AQI rose to 112, which is in the moderate category, on Monday. The AQI was 92 a day earlier. The city witnessed similar five-day streaks of satisfactory AQI in June in 2021 and 2020 too.
According to the Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi, which is the forecasting body under the union ministry of earth sciences, the air quality is likely to again turn satisfactory from Tuesday to Thursday.
The Central Pollution Control Board considers a satisfactory day when the AQI is between 51 and 100, and an AQI between 101 and 200 is categorised as moderate.
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