Safdarjung, the city's base station, recorded 228.1 mm of rain in 24 hours. It was the heaviest rain in a single day since 1996, and the rainiest day in June since 1936. A whopping 148.5 mm fell in just 3 hours from 2:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m.
Indiana The arrival of the monsoon in Delhi was immediately declared and the earlier forecast for the onset of June 29-30 was revised. The agency had forecast light to moderate rain on Friday, but Safdarjung recorded “very heavy” showers, making it a day marked by road accidents and rain-related accidents. Three workers in Vasant Vihar are believed to have died after falling into a rainwater-filled pit at a construction site, and a search is on for their bodies. Two boys, aged eight and 10, drowned in a ditch in New Usmanpur, northeast Delhi. Three children died when a wall collapsed in Greater Noida.
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Floods across Delhi have resulted from gridlock and submerged underpasses, with points like the Minto Bridge and Pragati tunnel overflowing their capacity and turning into rivers, forcing office workers to rewrite their schedules.
Appointments were canceled and many who set out on their adventure by car soon found themselves stranded in the swirling waters.
The hospital was turned into a no-go zone and people heading to the airport to catch domestic flights soon discovered that the canopy had fallen, killing the taxi driver at around 5am. This resulted in disruption to flight schedules.
weather Scientists said the high-intensity rains were due to the interaction of different weather systems and warned that the rains could repeat on Sunday. The rain was accompanied by thunderstorms and strong, gusty winds.
“The extreme rains that inundated large parts of the city were caused by a monsoon trough passing directly over Delhi, a cyclonic circulation over UP and a cyclonic circulation over Punjab and adjoining areas. This injected additional moisture into the region. The interaction of these weather systems led to the extreme rainfall over Delhi,” Mahesh Palawat, vice-president, meteorology and climate change, Skymet, said. On Friday, the city recorded a maximum rainfall of 148.5 mm between 2.30 am and 5.30 am and 74.4 mm between 5.30 am and 8.30 am. Another 5.2 mm was recorded between 8.30 am and 11.30 am on Thursday, taking the cumulative rainfall to 228.1 mm in the 24 hours.
Palam recorded 106.6 mm of rainfall, Lodhi Road 192.8 mm and Ridge area 150.4 mm. Temperatures dropped sharply as showers fell. Maximum temperature The temperature in Safdarjung was recorded at 32.5 degrees Celsius, five notches below normal and the lowest since May 1, compared to 35.4 degrees Celsius the previous day. The lowest temperature was 24.7 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal compared to 28.6 degrees Celsius the previous day.
Since 8.30 am on Friday, Safdarjung and most parts of the country have recorded drizzle or trace amounts of rain, too light to be recorded. Palam recorded an additional 0.4 mm and Lodhi Road recorded an additional 1 mm.
An IMD statement later said that the southwestern monsoon would reach more parts of western Rajasthan, rest of eastern Rajasthan, some parts of Haryana, entire Delhi, more parts of western and eastern UP, MP, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, It said progress had been made to the rest of Bihar. He added that conditions are good for the monsoon to advance further into Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh over the next two to three days.
The Met Office predicted heavy rain to continue and issued an orange warning. inform Moderate to heavy rain is expected on Saturday and heavy to very heavy rain on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the city's air quality remained satisfactory with the AQI being 64, up from 79 the previous day.