Light rain could bring back cooler days in April
weather phenomenon that brings rain to India’s northern states could hit Delhi in the next few days and bring down temperatures in the capital experiencing an unusually fiery start to the summer season, an official forecast said on Saturday.
The predictions by the Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) could soothe frayed nerves in a city of 16 million people who were bracing for temperatures as high as 40 degree Celsius over the next few days.
The mercury had shot up to 37.4 degree Celsius on Thursday, making it the hottest day of March since 2010, and was projected to rise further.
Met experts, however, said rain and drizzle could be just a few days away. “It is because of this approaching western disturbance that the sky would turn partly cloudy and Delhi would be saved from experiencing the hottest day (of March) this decade. Without this the mercury level could have shot up further and touched 40 degrees by March 31,” Vishan added.
Western disturbance is a term used to describe a storm originating in the Mediterranean that brings sudden rainbearing clouds to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent.
Delhi had seen a dramatic rise of temperatures over a five-day period last week, experiencing an eight-degree rise in the mercury as a pleasant spring gave way to conditions as harsh as the city’s extreme summer.
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