Climate Replace: Slight Reduction From Rising Temperature As Delhi-NCR Obtain Rainfall | Information

New Delhi: Components of the nationwide capital and NCR on Wednesday (March 1) woke as much as gentle rainfall and thunderstorms with the India Meteorological Division (IMD) predicting extra showers throughout the day. The rainfall in Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad got here amid an uncommon rise in temperatures in some locations of the nation. Earlier within the day, IMD had predicted gentle to reasonable depth rain in areas of Delhi and the Nationwide Capital Area for a couple of hours.

“Thunderstorms with gentle to reasonable depth rain would happen over and adjoining areas of remoted locations of North-West Delhi, South-West Delhi (Mundaka, Jafarpur, Nazafgarh), NCR (Bahadurgarh) Charkhi Dadri, Mattanhail, Jhajjar (Haryana) and within the adjoining areas of some locations of Delhi, NCR (Hindon Air Power Station, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram) Karnal.

The common most temperature in Delhi for the month of February this yr has been pegged at 27.7 levels Celsius, the third highest within the final 63 years, in accordance with information shared by officers on Tuesday. Town registered a excessive of 32.1 levels Celsius on Tuesday, on the Safdarjung observatory, the nationwide capital’s major climate station. It was seven notches above regular.

In keeping with information shared by officers, the town had registered a median most temperature of 27.9 levels Celsius in February at Safdarjung station in 1960. The corresponding determine in 2006 stood at 29.7 levels Celsius and the studying for the yr 2023 stands at 27.7 levels Celsius, as per the info shared.

The nationwide capital has seen a couple of spells of sizzling climate this February. Delhi on February 20 had recorded the third hottest February day since 1969 with the utmost temperature on the Safdarjung observatory hovering to 33.6 levels Celsius. The studying on Monday was 9 notches above regular.

On Tuesday night, the relative humidity was recorded at 42 per cent, in accordance with the IMD information. Delhi’s air high quality stood within the ‘poor’ class because the air high quality index (AQI) learn 222 at 7 pm. An AQI between zero and 50 is taken into account ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘passable’, 101 and 200 ‘reasonable’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘extreme’.

(With Company Inputs)