Delhi 4°C colder after Sunday rain, temp to stay below 40 degrees today

Thunderstorms accompanied by a drizzle over the weekend helped the mercury stay well below the 40°C in the city on Sunday evening.

The day temperature, which had soared above 42°C, came down to around 38°C in the evening. MeT officials predicted the sky would remain partly cloudy for at least the next five days.

“Even though chances of more rain and thundershowers are less, the moisture in the air and the partly cloudy sky will not allow the day temperature to rise beyond 38°C,” said a senior official of the Regional Weather Forecasting Centre.

The city received traces of rain on Sunday, while areas near the airport received around 0.2 mm of rain. But MeT officials said that it was the cool moist winds that helped the temperature to remain low.

The rain and thunderstorm were triggered by a western disturbance coupled with a circulation over Punjab and Haryana. Moisture-laden winds from the Arabian Sea had gushed into the mainland. The two systems churned out rain from these moisture-laden winds.

And it wasn’t just Delhi-NCR to get relief from the rising mercury. Met officials claimed that almost all states in north-west India including Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan received some rain.

The hilly regions of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand received fairly widespread rain, while Delhi, along with others states in the plains, received scattered and isolated rain.

MET OFFICIALS PREDICT THE SKY TO REMAIN PARTLY CLOUDY FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS