Overall weather conditions are going to be pleasant, for Delhi and suburbs as temperatures will remain under check due to rainfall, Skymet predicted.
The national weather office has forecast rising temperatures in the coming weeks after India experienced its hottest February since 1901.
Storm-ravaged Mississippi struggled on March 26 with the aftermath of a huge tornado that tore across the southern US state, killing at least 25 people, with devastated communities bracing for a fresh bout of extreme weather.
More rain accompanied by thunderstorms is predicted during the day, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The eastern and northern parts of Delhi witnessed rain and hailstorm, it said.
The IMD had warned of a heat wave for Sunday and Monday.
In Mumbai and the surrounding areas, unseasonal showers brought some relief from sultry weather on Monday. An official said on Tuesday that the Malshej Ghat region between Thane and Pune districts received heavy rainfall with thunder a day before.
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“Temperature was 5-8 degree above normal in January over Gujarat, Rajasthan, north-Maharashtra, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, because of a typical weather situation in association with anti-cyclone located over Gujarat," noted IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
XDI CEO Rohan Hamden said that the report was released keeping in mind the demand from investors for data on climate risk at sub-sovereign and regional levels.
The cause behind this year’s heat wave is the absence of a western disturbance, and hence weaker rainfall.
The month of February witnessed a drastic rise in temperature during which most sections of the country were already ahead of time as far as the onset of summer was concerned.
On Friday, the minimum temperature in Delhi settled at 12.8 degrees Celsius and the maximum at 29.8 degrees Celsius.
The humidity at 8.30 am was recorded at 88 per cent, the IMD said. The maximum temperature is expected to settle at 21 degrees Celsius, it said.
More than forty flights are affected by the persistence of bad weather conditions over the Delhi airspace.
While the minimum temperatures have been hovering below normal limits at most places for the past over a fortnight, the maximum temperatures too have dropped sharply for the past over a week.
The Delhi International Airport Limited tweeted that flights, which are not CAT III compliant, may get affected.
Most people kept indoors and turned to space heaters and cups of hot tea to keep themselves warm as frosty winds from the snow-clad Himalayas barrelled through the plains, including the national capital.
The deep freeze from a deadly winter storm that walloped much of the United States will continue into the week as people in western New York deal with massive snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles and travelers across the country see cancelled flights and dangerous roads.
The maximum temperature is expected to settle at 20 degrees Celsius.
The city, which houses thousands of tech startups and at least 40 of the country’s 105 unicorns, saw its wettest day in about eight years on September 5. The city recorded 131.6 mm of rain in the past 24 hours, according to the IMD
Assam, Meghalaya, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, South Interior Karnataka, Kerala Mahe, and Sikkim may experience heavy rainfall.
Skymet has predicted light to moderate rain over the next 24 hours for parts of northeast and isolated pockets of south interior Karnataka and Kerala
Dust storms and thunderstorm with isolated hailstorm are likely in parts of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
According to a Skymet weather update, the Southwest Monsoon is likely to further advance as conditions seem favorable.