Delhi on Friday witnessed gentle rain and gentle thunderstorms together with gusty winds, with the minimal temperature settling at 16 levels Celsius, 0.5 levels under regular.
The Capital logged its coldest March day in six years following the sharp dip in temperature, with the air high quality index additionally falling to ‘passable’, seeings its lowest studying in 5 months, PTI information company reported.
The nationwide capital will proceed to expertise cloudy skies for the approaching days as properly. In response to the India Meteorological Division’s forecast for the following seven days, Delhi will see partly cloudy skies, with a chance of very gentle rain accompanied by thunderstorm and lightning at the beginning of subsequent week. The rain, which introduced again a winter-like chill to the capital, got here after a short interval of rising temperatures earlier than the summer season season units in.
Delhi sees wettest March, coldest March day, cleanest air in 5 months
The rainfall has made this month Delhi’s wettest March in three years, with a mean rainfall of 9.4 mm. The Capital additionally skilled its coldest March day since February 8, 2020. The utmost temperature on Friday settled at 21.7 levels Celsius at Safdarjung, 9.6 levels under regular.
The air high quality additionally noticed a marked enchancment, with the AQI studying recorded at 93 within the ‘passable’ class. The final time the Capital recorded a ‘passable’ AQI studying was on October 9, 2025. The air high quality is prone to be within the ‘reasonable’ class from Saturday to March 23, PTI reported citing the Air High quality Early Warning System.
The IMD had issued a yellow alert for Friday, warning of extra rain and an extra drop in temperature to round 23 to 25°C. On Thursday, the minimal temperature had fallen under 30°C for the primary time in practically a month, settling at 26.8°C.
In response to the IMD’s seven-day outlook, the utmost temperature is prone to rise progressively after Friday, reaching 32-34°C by March 25.
Rain, snowfall possible throughout Himalayan area, Northeast India
The climate division in its bulletin mentioned rainfall or snowfall was possible over remoted locations in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It mentioned that gentle to reasonable rains, together with thunderstorms, would happen in components of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Scattered to pretty widespread gentle to reasonable rainfall can be possible over Northeast India, together with Manipur, Assam, Mizoram and Tripura on Friday. West Bengal, Sikkim may even witness gentle to reasonable rains, whereas some locations in Jharkhand and Odisha evening expertise thundersquall, IMD acknowledged.
In South India, gentle to reasonable rainfall is probably going over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, Rayalseema and Telangana.
