Delhi on Sunday woke up to overcast skies, light rain, and thunderstorms, with temperatures in the national capital dipping slightly from earlier highs, as predicted by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
At 6.30 am on Sunday, AccuWeather showed a temperature of 20°C in the national capital, reporting widely separated thundershowers.
The IMD, in its latest weather bulletin, issued on the evening of 14 March, predicted light rain in the national capital on Sunday.
“A spell of very light rain/drizzle accompanied with thunderstorm/lightning” in Delhi was predicted for morning and forenoon hours on Sunday, with strong surface winds with speeds of 30-40 kmph, gusting to 50 kmph.
The IMD also said that the national capital would see maximum temperatures fall by 3-5°C on Sunday before seeing a gradual rise by 3-5°C again.
“Maximum temperatures are likely to be normal (-1.5°C to 1.5°C) to appreciably above normal (3.1°C to 5.0°C) over the next 7 days,” the IMD said.
Delhi saw the warmest day of the year on Wednesday, with the maximum temperature in the national capital rising to 36.8°C — 8.4 degrees above normal. The minimum temperature, meanwhile, was 17.8°C, more than four degrees above normal.
Wednesday high temperatures came amid an unusually warm March, with maximum temperature touching 35.7°C last Saturday, the earliest to hit that mark in 15 years.
“There has been no cloud cover, resulting in strong sunshine. The impact of western disturbances has also been negligible, causing the mercury to soar,” Mahesh Palawat, vice-president at Skymet Weather, was quoted as saying by HT at the time.
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