(News18)
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a yellow alert for Delhi, Gurgaon, and Faridabad. The alert warns of heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and gusty winds.
According to the weather department, the national capital is expected to witness light to moderate rainfall throughout the day, with wind speeds likely to touch 30–40 kmph.
“During evening – Light to Moderate Rainfall, Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning & gusty winds (30–40 kmph),” the IMD stated in its weekly weather bulletin. Similar conditions are expected to persist during the night as well.
The weather department predicts that similar conditions will persist on June 24 and 25. For Tuesday, the forecast includes multiple rounds of showers across Delhi. “During morning – Light to Moderate Rainfall, Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning & gusty winds (30–40 kmph),” IMD said, adding that the pattern is expected to repeat in the forenoon, afternoon, evening, and night.
Delhi’s neighboring cities, Gurgaon and Faridabad, are also under a yellow alert, with forecasts indicating heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and lightning throughout the day in these Delhi NCR regions.
The weather department has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over northwest India, including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and the Konkan and Goa regions through June 26, with Madhya Pradesh expected to experience extremely heavy downpours on June 23 and 24.
Delhi Monsoon
The IMD suggests that the monsoon is likely to hit Delhi and surrounding areas soon, potentially by June 24. If this occurs, it would be the earliest monsoon onset in Delhi since 2013, when the rains arrived on June 16.
The southwest monsoon is likely to reach Delhi, Chandigarh and parts of Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir in the next two days.
“The southwest monsoon has advanced further over most parts of Himachal Pradesh, the entire Ladakh and Kashmir, most parts of Jammu, and some parts of Punjab,” IMD cited by ANI.
“Conditions are favourable for the Southwest monsoon to advance further over the remaining parts of the North Arabian Sea, some more parts of Rajasthan and Punjab, some parts of Haryana, Chandigarh, and Delhi, and the remaining parts of West Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu during the next two days,” it added.
The monsoon’s arrival in Delhi has varied, with the rains setting in on June 28 in 2023, June 30 in 2022, and as late as July 13 in 2021.
