New Delhi:
According to India’s Meteorological Department (IMD), after beating the city in the early hours of Sunday and 81.4 mm of rain in a few hours, Delhi recorded its largest May since the commencement of record-keeping.
Crossing the previous all-time record of the 165 mm set in May 2008, the cumulative rainfall of the month has now touched 186.4 mm.
The storm, which was killed around 2 pm, brought the winds at a speed of 82 km per hour, causing widespread waterlogging, uprooted trees and major disruption at the airport.
Delhi’s Sunday rains alone-classified as “heavy” by IMD standards-After logging in 119.3 mm on May 20, 2021, it was also made the second largest 24-hour rainfall in the city. The temperature surrounded by nose overnight from the nose, within 75 minutes within 75 minutes with mercury with 10 degrees in Surderjung.
The Meteorological Office stated that unusually acute storm was the result of the conversation between moist south -east winds and dry vestlees, which was further intensified by three active weather systems: a western disturbance on North Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, and two upper air cyclonic circulation -one north -west northern region and north green and another west Rajasthan.
According to the data, the city had earlier seen 77 mm of rain on 2 May.
Although no color-coded alert has been issued for the days to come, IMD is forecast to stay through the week with intermittent rains and thunderstorms with winds up to 50 kmph.
Sunday’s maximum temperature was a cool 31.6 ° C, nine notch below normal, while the minimum was seven degrees below the average of 19.8 ° C, May.
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