Relieved by rain, but hit by chaos

NEW DELHI: The rain spread cheer when it started on Saturday morning but when it did not stop even after several hours, Delhiites started realizing the impact of the season's heaviest showers. A little over 100mm rain in 90 minutes from noon and a continuous drizzle for most of the evening took the day's total to 123.4mm till 8.30pm. This is the third highest rain recorded in the capital on a single day in the last 10 years. The city has also recorded 384mm rain against a normal of 277mm for the season from June 1 till 5.30pm on July 20. This is also more than half of the season's total from June to September. During this period normal rainfall is 645.7mm. More rain is expected over Sunday and Monday though Met officials said it would not be of the same intensity as on Saturday.

Heavy showers were almost uniform across Delhi with Lodhi Road recording the highest of 127mm between 8.30am and 5.30pm. Palam recorded 70.9mm during this period while Ayanagar recorded 93.5mm and Pitampura saw 91mm rain.

"The southwest monsoon has been active over UP, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Saturday's high rain in such a small period of time was mainly due to the movement of the monsoon trough from south of its normal position to north which placed it almost exactly over the capital by morning. The trough passed through Ganganagar, Gurgaon, Gwalior, Ambikapur, Paradip and then on to the Bay of Bengal," said RK Jenamani, director in charge, IGI Met.

Delhi Regional Meteorological Center officials said that there were two to three circulations embedded in the trough that had moved in quick succession from north Odisha and adjoining Chhatisgarh and were instrumental in bringing in a lot of moisture from the Bay of Bengal.

The normal rainfall between July 1 and 20 is 211mm of which the city has already witnessed 264mm. Of this, 247mm has been contributed by just four days of rain. Saturday added 123mm to the kitty. June also recorded more than normal rainfall. "Monsoon has been quite active over northwest India but Delhi has received heavy rain on very few days. Otherwise it has just faced very high levels of humidity," said a RMC official. More rain is expected over northwest India, including UP, Delhi, east Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and south of Jammu, in the next three to four days. The more fruitful days for Delhi are likely to be Sunday and Monday.

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