New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday said the southwest monsoon is expected to hit the national capital in the next 24 hours.
Predicting cloudy skies with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers on Sunday, the IMD said the easterly winds have made conditions favourable for the advancement of the southwest monsoon.
The weather department added the southwest monsoon is likely to cover parts of north India, including Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, in a day.
“Hence, the conditions continue to remain favourable for further advancement of southwest monsoon over Delhi, remaining parts of west Uttar Pradesh and some more parts of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan during the next 24 hours,” PTI reported the IMD as saying.
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The maximum and the minimum temperatures of Delhi on Saturday settled at 39.8 degrees Celsius, four degrees above normal, and 28.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, respectively.
The IMD had earlier on Friday predicted that the monsoon would reach Delhi on Saturday.
This will be the most-delayed monsoon in the national capital in the last 15 years as it was earlier predicted that it would reach Delhi on June 27.
Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the IMD’s regional forecasting centre, said the monsoon had reached Delhi on July 7 in 2012 and July 9 in 2006.