New Delhi, Thursday, August 30, Showers would have played havoc with the city dwellers but the positive thing is that during this period, Delhi not only recorded a staggering 59.5 mm of rain on August 28, the best of this season on a single day but also witnessed wettest August in a decade and a half or so.
So far, the capital has received 363.3 mm of rain during August. Only the August of 2010 has been wetter since 1996 when the city recorded 455.1 mm of rain. The seasonal rainfall of the city is now deficient by just 8%. During August, Delhi also surpassed the average rainfall 258. 7 mm in the month of August. Delhi has received 489.6 mm of rain since June 1 and it is still deficient by 54.9 mm of rain. The average rainfall for the months of June, July and August is 544.1 mm.
Rain is likely to reduce over Delhi during the next two days as the low pressure area of Haryana has moved downward and now lies over southeast Rajasthan. Showers are expected to pick up again by September 3 when the western end of the monsoon trough would be moving northward and will interact with the Western Disturbance passing above Jammu and Kashmir.
Delhi still lags behind in terms of average rainfall it receives during the monsoon season. And, now it depends on the rainfall during September, the last month of the southwest monsoon to make up for the deficiency it has been carrying since June 1.
