Delhi's maximum temperature drops to 30.7 degrees Celsius; light rain likely on Monday

New Delhi: The maximum temperature in the national capital on 19 June, 2022, settled at 30.7 degrees Celsius, eight notches below normal for this time of the season, and the lowest since 17 June, 2014, the IMD said. It said light rain may hit the city on Monday. Delhi recorded 1 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Sunday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The national capital has gauged 23.8 mm of rainfall against a normal of 31.1 mm since 1 June, when the monsoon season starts in the country, said an IMD official. According to IMD, the minimum temperature in the city on 19 June was recorded at 24.5 degrees Celsius, three notches below average for this time of the season. The relative humidity oscillated between 96 per cent and 65 per cent. The IMD has predicted generally cloudy skies on Monday with light to moderate rain/ thundershowers accompanied with gusty winds of around 30-40 kmph speed. The maximum temperature in the city is likely to hover around 32 degrees Celsius, while the minimum temperature to be around 24 degrees on Monday. The IMD had on 17 June, said that scattered to fairly widespread rainfall is likely in Delhi in the next four days under the influence of a western disturbance at middle tropospheric levels and of southwesterly winds from the Arabian Sea at lower tropospheric levels. It issued a Yellow’ alert, warning of thundershowers or light rain, for four days starting 18 June. The IMD uses four colour codes for weather warnings: Green (no action needed), Yellow (watch and stay updated), Orange (be prepared), and Red (take action). The weather is likely to become clear after 22 June with commencing of dry westerly winds, it said, but a steep rise in temperature is not predicted, it added. G P Sharma, president (meteorology), Skymet Weather said a cyclonic circulation is going to come up over parts of West Bengal, north Odisha, and adjoining Bangladesh, changing the wind pattern in the Indo-Gangetic plains. “This cyclonic circulation will initiate the typical easterly flow which is crucial for the progress of the monsoon towards northwest India. The monsoon will reach Delhi around the usual date (27 June), a day before or a day later,” he said. Last year, the IMD had forecast that the monsoon would arrive in Delhi about weeks before its usual date. However, it reached the capital only on 13 July, making it the most delayed in 19 years. Read all the Latest News , Trending News ,  Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.