New Delhi: The IMD said that the National Capital Region (NCR) and several areas of Delhi received moderate to heavy rains in the early part of Saturday. The IMD had predicted that the light to moderate could persist for the whole day, but no weather warning has been issued yet. A primary weather station for Delhi, Safdarjung, reported 2.9mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours until 8:30 am on Saturday; the heaviest rainfall recorded between 5:30 am and 8:30 am. Other weather stations recorded varied amounts of rainfall: The SPS Mayur Vihar received 15.5mm, Lodhi Road 3mm and Ridge 0.4mm of rain.
For NCR, Ghaziabad received only 16mm of rainfall while on the other side, Noida received slightly more than it received 25mm of rainfall. Of the IMD dataset, the value is defined as 5mm. The IMD classifies rainfall in ranges: back to 2.4mm is considered very light rainfall, 2.5mm to 15.5mm is light rainfall, 15.6mm to 64.4mm is moderate rainfall and 64.5mm to 115.5mm is heavy rainfall.
Delhi also received more pre-monsoon thundershowers on Saturday after experiencing a drop in the minimum temperature, which was 25 degrees Celsius, two degrees less than what is considered normal for this season. This was much lower compared to the previous day’s minimum temperature of 29.6°C. An IMD official said, “While the maximum temperature is expected to hover around 33 degrees, mostly cloudy conditions are expected to remain as persistent light to moderate rain may continue in Delhi,”
Moreover, the AQI for Delhi also stayed in the moderate bracket all through the month. New Delhi’s CPCB measured an AQI of 103, moderate at 10 am in the morning on Saturday. Thus, although it is not dangerous to breathe the air outside in any way, the levels of the AQI show that outdoor air quality in the two cities is not at its best, even with rain.
The effect of rainfall is that it is constant, and the residents enjoy cooler weather or a breather from the scorching heat.
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