Delhi weather forecast: Heavy rain lashes parts off Delhi today.
Heavy rains drenched parts of Delhi today as monsoon clouds reached the city. The weather office has said the city will see a cloudy day with moderate rainfall. In its forecast, the India Meteorological Department, on Tuesday said monsoon is likely to arrive in Delhi in the next 2 days. "As we had said earlier, monsoon will arrive in Delhi and the National Capital Region on June 25. Naturally there will be rain and monsoon will be declared over this region," Anand Sharma, Deputy Director, IMD, Delhi told news agency ANI.
Weather experts believe, the early arrival of the monsoon in Delhi can be attributed to a cyclonic circulation, which moved towards southwest Uttar Pradesh on June 19 and June 20.
Rain and thundershowers are also expected during the day in Uttar Pradesh. Budaun, Sambhal, Aligarh, Bulandsahar, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Saharanpur, Hapur, Amroha, Meerut and a few others districts are likely to get heavy rain the weather office in Lucknow said.
Temperatures are a few notches below the normal at this time of the year in northern India, bringing respite from sweltering heat.
"Conditions are favourable for further advancement of monsoon into the remaining parts of Uttar Pradesh, entire western Himalayan region, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, most parts of Punjab and some parts of Rajasthan during the next 48 hours," the India Meteorological Department told news agency PTI.
The Southwest monsoon has been fairly active over large parts of India. The met department, in its long-range forecast, said monsoon will be normal with an average of 96 per cent to 104 per cent rainfall this year.