Light rains bring down mercury in Delhi; Squalls likely in NCR region on Wednesday

Light rains pulled down the mercury in the nationwide capital with the utmost temperature settling at 30.8 levels Celsius, 9 notches beneath the season’s common, whereas the climate division has warned of squalls in the NCR region on Wednesday.

As Cyclone Tauktae weakens additional, its remnants will bring reasonable rains to a number of elements of north India together with the Delhi-NCR region, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned on Tuesday.

“Tomorrow, it will stretch from Rajasthan to Haryana. Due to this, east and west Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, the Delhi-NCR region will witness moderate rain. There is a possibility of heavy rains in some parts of Delhi,” mentioned Kuldeep Srivastava, Head of the Regional Meteorological Centre of the IMD.  

The IMD has issued an orange colour-coded warning for Wednesday for the NCR region with a forecast of rains and squally winds of 50-60 km per hour. It has predicted thunderstorms with rain for Thursday.

The Met workplace points colour-coded warnings to alert folks forward of extreme or hazardous climate that has the potential to trigger injury, widespread disruption or hazard to life.

Orange is for climate situations that may affect considerably, whereas yellow, the least harmful of all of the climate warnings, signifies the opportunity of extreme climate.

The relative humidity recorded at 5.30 PM was 70 %.

Delhi’s air high quality was in the ‘passable’ class on Tuesday. Data from Central Pollution Control Board confirmed that the hourly air high quality index (AQI) at 7.05 pm stood at 84.

An AQI between zero and 50 is taken into account “good”, 51 and 100 “satisfactory”, 101 and 200 “moderate”, 201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and 400 “very poor”, and 401 and 500 “severe”. 

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