New Delhi: The national capital broke a 45 year old record after it register the highest-ever rainfall in 24 hours in May. The rain is an after effect of the Cyclone Tauktae and left a trail of destruction on the western coast where it had made landfall on Monday.
The consistent rains also led to a drop in the maximum temperature, making it the lowest maximum temperature since 1951.
IMD recordings showed that till 8.30pm on Wednesday, Delhi’s Safdarjung observatory had recorded 60mm rainfall. IMD officials said that the all-time record of rainfall for May for Safdarjung is 60.0 mm which was registered on May 24, 1976, and since Wednesday's rain continued into the night in most parts of the city, this record has been broken.
As the rain continued throughout Wednesday the temperature saw a dramatic dip by 16 degree Celsius, this was the lowest recorded in the month of May in the past 70 years.
The maximum temperature at the Safdarjung observatory falling to 23.8 degree Celsius, 16 degree Celsius below the normal for this time of the year. The minimum temperature was 21.4 degree Celsius, five notches below the season’s normal. The Palam observatory recorded a maximum temperature of 25.7degree Celsius, 15 degree Celsius. The minimum temperature here was 20.2 degree Celsius.
"Today, Safdarjung recorded a maximum temperature of 23.8 degrees Celsius. This is the lowest maximum temperature since 1951," Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the India Meteorological Department's regional forecasting centre, was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
This was lower than that of Srinagar at 25.8 degrees Celsius and Dharamshala at 27.2 degrees Celsius.