2 weeks Ago By Priyangi Agarwal
New Delhi: Frequent rainy days kept this Aug cool. The mean maximum temperature this month was 34.2 degrees Celsius, making it the coolest Aug in the past 11 years.
Aug 2013 saw a lower mean maximum temperature at 33.6 degrees Celsius. The nights were cooler as the mean minimum temperature was 25.
7 degrees Celsius, which was the lowest in at least 14 years, shows India Meteorological Department’s data available since 2011. The minimum temperature is recorded early in the morning when the city received rain on most days. Delhi also recorded its wettest Aug in the past 14 years with an average rainfall of 390.
3 mm as against the monthly average of 233.1 mm. In Aug 2010, the city got 455.
1 mm of rainfall. According to IMD, Safdarjung, the city’s base station, has seen 26 rainy days out of the 30 days of Aug. It includes very light rain — below 2.
4 mm logged in a single day. Aug also had the highest number of rainy days in at least 14 years. On some days when rain eluded Safdarjung, other stations got it.
A Met official said: “The monsoon trough mostly stayed close to Delhi-NCR, leading to rain on most days of the month. Rain and cloudiness on most days prevented the day temperature from rising further.” Another official said that on many days, rain happened in the night or early morning, which kept the minimum temperature low.
The average maximum and minimum temperatures in Aug last year were 35.4 and 26.8 degrees Celsius, respectively, when the month logged just 91.
8 mm rainfall. Aug last year saw a rain deficit of 61%. Aug 2013, which recorded a lower mean maximum temperature than this year, was wetter with an average rainfall of 321.
4 mm. Meanwhile, the maximum temperature on Friday rose to 35 degrees Celsius, one degree above normal. It was 6.
2 degrees higher than Thursday’s maximum when the city saw a heavy spell of rain. The minimum temperature was 24 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal. The relative humidity oscillated between 67% and 98% on Friday.
Some parts of the city got very light rain on Friday evening. Safdarjung logged 11.8 mm rainfall till 8.
30 am, but no rainfall between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm.
However, from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm, Palam recorded 1.
7 mm while Lodhi Road and Ridge witnessed ‘trace’ rainfall. “Rain is unlikely during the weekend, but a yellow alert has been issued for light to moderate showers for Monday and Tuesday,” said a Met official. Delhi's air quality deteriorated from 'satisfactory' category on Thursday to 'moderate' on Friday.
The AQI was 102 on Friday..
