The India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast suggests generally cloudy skies with light rain on Wednesday, with maximum temperatures hovering around 30 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature is likely to settle at 21 degrees Celsius, according to the Met department. The national capital witnessed light to moderate intermittent rainfall for the past five days.
The rainfall recorded so far in October (128.2 mm) is about four times the normal rainfall and three times the rainfall recorded in August, the wettest month of the monsoon. It is also the highest for October since 1956. According to the IMD, Delhi recorded 236.2 mm of rainfall in October 1956. On Tuesday, the maximum temperature settled at 28.9 degrees Celsius, while the minimum temperature settled at 20.8 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal.
The IMD said in a weather bulletin that a cyclonic circulation lies over Punjab and adjoining Haryana in lower tropospheric levels. Another cyclonic circulation lies over Kerala in lower tropospheric levels and a trough from this cyclonic circulation leads to Southwest Madhya Pradesh in lower tropospheric levels. The cyclonic circulation which lies over the North Andaman Sea in the lower tropospheric levels is very likely to move almost westwards during the next 3-4 days.
Under the influence of these systems, heavy rainfall is likely to continue over Tamil Nadu for the next five days and over interior Karnataka for the next two days. Widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall very likely over sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Bihar today. Conditions are very likely to become favorable for the withdrawal of Southwest Monsoon from some other parts of northwest and central India during the next 4-5 days, according to the Met department.
