More rainy days ahead this month in Delhi

NEW DELHI: If you were waiting for good weather to plan an outing, now is the time. Met department officials have said that rain is here to stay and light to moderate showers are expected at regular intervals across Delhi till at least the end of August.

The monsoon has been exceptionally good to Delhi this year. The city is just a good day's rain away from realizing its rain quota for the entire season. At 637mm till Monday morning, the monsoon rainfall is only 9mm short of its June to September normal of 645.7mm. The normal from June to August 19 is 441.3mm.

As with June and July, August too has already recorded more than the month's total quota of rain. Since August 6, Delhi has witnessed some amount of rain each day with the exception of August 12. The next two days recorded only trace rain. The maximum amount of rain this month was recorded over two days, between August 17 and 18. This period saw 97mm rainfall. August till Monday morning had recorded 177 mm rain.

"The situation will be more or less similar till the end of the month. There is regular development of low pressure systems over northwest Bay of Bengal that are travelling across India. This monsoon is unique since we haven't had any break this season so far. Northwest India, including Delhi, will see only light to moderate rain as it is due to oscillation of the monsoon rough from south to north," said Dr OP Singh, deputy director general (meteorology), Delhi regional meteorological centre.

Officials said that till August 31, monsoon will be in excess of normal by at least 10% over the country and northwest India particularly. "September's contribution is not very high. Even if the rainfall during this month is below normal, we will end up with an overall figure of 105-110%. ," said Singh. Till Monday morning, the all India rainfall was 14% above normal.

The intermittent showers also kept the temperature at a comfortable level. The maximum was 32.6 degree Celsius, one degree below normal while the minimum was 26.3 degree Celsius.

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