Rains in Delhi NCR begin, pleasant weather likely
The pre-Monsoon rains and thundershowers have started lashing Delhi-NCR. According to Skymet Weather, convective clouds had developed over the national capital during the noon hours.
At present, Safdarjung Enclave, Green Park, Saket, Mehrauli, R K Puram, Janak Puri, and Faridabad are recording moderate to heavy thundershowers. Few places have also reported spell of hailstorm.
Intense clouding is seen over rest of the areas including NCR such as Noida, Greater Noida, and Gurugram. Rains will soon begin to drench these regions as well.
Check out the current status of Rain ad lightning over Delhi-NCR
With these rains, mercury has dropped, weather has gone extremely pleasant over the city. In fact at present, temperature is hovering around 23°C.
Delhi weather remained warm and dry for quite some time during the last week. In fact, residents were craving for some good spells of rain to get rid of the warm weather conditions.
Rain gods have finally answered the prayers of the residents and the national capital has been witnessing good rains for the last 24 hours. Not only these as per weathermen, this rainy spell will make a comeback today as well.
During the last 24 hours from 8:30 am on Thursday, Palam observatory recorded a good 9.6 mm of rainfall. Other parts also witnessed moderate rains with Noida recording 15.1 mm of rain, Pusa 7 mm, and Safdarjung 2.4 mm. During the same period, Rohtak also witnessed good rains of 6 mm.
At present a Western Disturbance is affecting the hills of North India due to which an induced cyclonic circulation has developed over Haryana and its adjoining areas. Not only this, a trough is also extending from this system up to West Uttar Pradesh.
Thus, due to the combined effect of the above-mentioned weather features, Delhi and the NCR region is likely to witness some rains. In fact, temperatures are also expected to witness a dip giving residents the feeling of cool weather for at least some time.
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