Skymet weather

Rain in Delhi to pick up from Monday night; intermittent showers to continue till 25th June

Monsoon is around the corner in Delhi as rain has already started to occur in pockets and is likely to pick up from Monday evening/night, spilling over to Tuesday morning. According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, the weather in Delhi is expected to be cloudy all day on Monday and occasional showers could be witnessed at isolated pockets.

With early morning showers reported at Safdarjung Observatory in Delhi on Monday, the minimum slipped by two notches, settling at 28⁰C as opposed to 30⁰C on Sunday morning. Traces of rain were recorded at Safdarjung, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Ayanagar.

The maximum temperature in the city, which had been settling five to six notches above normal till Saturday, witnessed a drop on Sunday evening to record 40⁰C, though still two degrees above the normal average for the month.

But the day temperature in Delhi on Monday is expected to drop significantly and settle close to 35⁰C due to cloudy skies.  This may drop even further by a degree on Tuesday. Till 10:30 am on Monday, the mercury had touched only 29⁰C at Safdarjung and 30⁰C at Palam.

Skymet had earlier (20th June) predicted good amounts of rain in Delhi this week. It was followed by another article on Sunday, 22nd June, where it was said that Monsoon is likely to make an early onset in Delhi with further advancement of Monsoon line into central Uttar Pradesh. Possibilities of an early arrival of Monsoon in Delhi were also discussed in the Monsoon foreshadow released by Skymet Weather in mid-April.

“With cloudy skies expected most of the times, rain in Delhi is likely to continue with varying intensity for the next three days. This is because of a Western Disturbance which is seen moving across the hills of Jammu and Kashmir and a circulation near central Pakistan and adjoining Rajasthan, which is feeding moist southwesterly winds to Delhi”, said AVM (Retd), G.P Sharma.

Further, rain may occur not just in Delhi but also in Punjab, Haryana, north Rajasthan and parts of west Uttar Pradesh, whihc would pull down the temperatures in these states too. Rajasthan has been one of the hottest states in India this summer and the maximum till Friday were seen exceeding 44⁰C.

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Top ten rainiest cities in India on Saturday

According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, good Monsoon showers continued over most parts of Northeast and East India and Karnataka in the last 24 hours. Cherrapunji was once again the rainiest city in India with a whopping 384 mm. Southwest Monsoon has been lagging behind in central Uttar Pradesh by about four to five days, but it may very soon pick up and cover capital city Delhi around 25th June.

Here are the top ten rainiest cities in India on Saturday, 21st June-

Cities State Rainfall (in millimetres)
Cherrapunji Meghalaya 384
Malda West Bengal 91
Sriniketan West Bengal 87
Guwahati Assam 82
Madikeri Karnataka 69
Purnea Bihar 45
Darjeeling West Bengal 43
Jalpaiguri West Bengal 43
Shillong Meghalaya 35
Bardhaman West Bengal 34

 

Monsoon rain likely to reduce in East and Northeast India in 48 hours

After heavy monsoon rain in West Bengal and Northeast India for the fourth consecutive day on 21st June, rain is likely to reduce in the next 48 hours, according to Skymet Meteorology Division in India.

Till now, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and entire Northeast India had been witnessing cloudy and rainy weather with maximums slipping four to six notches below normal and recording in the range of 28⁰C to 32⁰C, on an average.

On Saturday fairly widespread rain was witnessed in East and Northeast India and the rain amounts settled between 30 mm to a whopping 300 mm. Here’s a look:

Balasore 14 mm, Tezpur 23 mm, Krishnanagar 25 mm, Bardhaman 34 mm, Shillong 35 mm, Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling 43 mm, Purnea 45 mm, Guwahati 82 mm, Sriniketan 87 mm and Cherrapunji 384 mm.

According to the latest weather update, moderate spells with heavy rain in isolated pockets may continue in East and Northeast India for another two days and then it may reduce gradually thereafter. However despite heavy monsoon rain for past so many days, the entire region is suffering a rain deficit of about 40% (till 21st June).

This is because monsoon rain picked only in the later part of June, i.e. after half the month was over, which is a starck contrast to last year’s situation when Southwest Monsoon had covered the entire country by 17th June

“The monsoon line (Northern Limit of Monsoon) has been stagnant for the last two days but it looks like it may cover parts of central and west Uttar Pradesh in the next three to four days. Monsoon made a late entry in East India (by about a week), but may reach Delhi and northern plains before time”, says meteorologist Mahesh Palawat.

Maharashtra, interior South India to be dry; rain continues along Karnataka, Kerala coast

In another example of a weak Monsoon in India this year, the interiors of South India and almost entire Maharashtra have been dry in the last 24 hours. And according to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, barring Karnataka and Kerala coast and isolated parts of Telangana, weather in South India is expected to be mainly dry for 48 hours.

On Saturday, Monsoon rain in South India was once again confined mainly to Kerala and Karnataka coast, while the interiors continued to reel under dry weather conditions Maharashtra also remained dry and the capital city Mumbai recorded no rain.

Here’s a look at rain figures from Saturday:

Rain at Karnataka: Agumbe 102.2 mm, Honavar 35 mm, Karwar 78.3 mm, Madikeri 70 mm, Mangalore 4 mm, Belgaum 0.3 mm and Chitradurga recorded traces of rain.

Rain in Kerala: Kozhikode 31 mm, Kottayam 23 mm, Kannur 10 mm, Punalur 9.4 mm, Alappuzha 4 mm, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram 3 mm each.

While capital cities of Bangalore and Hyderabad, lying in the interiors of South India remained dry, Chennai in north coastal Tamil Nadu recorded 10 mm of rain due to formation of a feeble trough.

In Andhra Pradesh, rain was recorded at Ongole, Visakhapatnam and Anantpur due to the same trough which gave rain over Chennai.

Meanwhile, weather in Mahrashtra remained dry with very light and isolated rain recorded at Mahabaleshwar (5 mm), Dahanu (0.8 mm) and Ratnagiri (1.9 mm).

“Monsoon surge will continue to be weak, bringing moderate to heavy rain only at Karnataka and Kerala coast. Mumbai may get some isolated showers on Sunday but after 24 hours the weather in Maharashtra, particularly over north coastal Maharashtra and south coastal Gujarat, will be dry for the next three to four days”, says meteorologist Mahesh Palawat.

Currently, the National Cumulative Average Monsoon rainfall is facing a deficit of 37%. Rain deficit in South India on a whole is about 20% with highest deficit being faced by coastal Andhra Pradesh of about 68%.

Till 21st June, rain deficit figures in different sub divisions of Mahrashtra were: Konkon & Goa 36%, Vidarbha 37%, Madhya Maharashtra 51% and Marathwada 69%.

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