More of the same likely today, but no colour code alert from Met dept
The Met department has forecast similar weather conditions for Thursday, though it hasn't issued a colour coded alert. Delhi can expect to receive light to moderate rain on Thursday, though the rain intensity is likely to drop from Friday onwards.
In the 24 hours until Wednesday 8.30am, Delhi's base weather station at Safdarjung recorded 14.4mm of rainfall. Lodhi Road logged 20.6mm, Palam 1.9mm, Ridge 32.8mm, Pragati Maidan 38.9mm, Pusa 23.5mm, Najafgarh 13mm, and Janakpuri, 18.5mm.
Later, there was more scattered light rain around noon. Between 8.30am and 5.30pm, Safdarjung recorded another 9.3mm of precipitation, Palam 1.2mm, Lodhi Road 11.2mm, Ridge 1.8mm and Ayanagar, 1.2mm.
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According to the India Meteorological Department's Krishna Mishra, "The monsoon line of trough is currently close to Delhi. It is passing through Amritsar, Bathinda, Karnal, Meerut and Varanasi. Delhi is feeling its impact.
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A western disturbance is also adding to the moisture. The south-westerly winds are feeding additional moisture from the Arabian Sea."
By 5.30pm on Wednesday, Safdarjung had received a season total of 151.2mm. The normal rainfall for the month of July in the long-period average (LPA) is 209.7mm. Last year, the city received 203.7mm in July against 384.6mm in 2023. In IMD classification, rain up to 15.5mm in 24 hours is deemed light, between 15.6 to 64.4mm is moderate and above 64.4mm is heavy.
Meanwhile, the city's maximum temperature on Wednesday was 30.8 degrees Celsius, four degrees below normal and around 2 degrees less than the 32.6 degrees a day earlier. The minimum was 25.6 degrees, two degrees below normal. The humidity oscillated between 88% and 100%.
IMD has forecast moderate to light rain to continue, with the maximum temperature likely to hover at 30-32 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the showers improved the air quality to 'satisfactory' levels, even as Delhi's environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said the capital was on track to record the cleanest July with an average air quality index of 67 so far.
On Wednesday, AQI, on a scale of 0 to 500, was 67 against 88 a day earlier, both in the 'satisfactory' category.
According to the minister, Delhi has recorded 118 days of 'good' to 'moderate' AQI so far, almost equal already to the 120 such days in entire 2024. "This is not a seasonal blip — it is the result of Delhi's multi-agency implementation model, continuous landfill action, intensified sweeping operations, and a clear commitment to outcome-based governance," Sirsa claimed, adding, "We are not celebrating early. We are simply staying the course — and the results are becoming visible more frequently across the year.
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