Heavy showers cool Delhi for 2nd consecutive day, mercury drops

New Delhi, June 16 (UNI) Heavy showers lashed Delhi for a second consecutive day today, plummeting the mercury and maintaining coolness in the capital.

Following heavy rains last evening, which the weatherman said could be the first pre-monsoon showers to hit Delhi, the city was lashed by another spell of heavy rains early this morning.

The showers, which hit Delhi at 0800 hrs, brought down the mercury level by several degrees. The minimum temperature dropped to 23.5 degrees Celsius, six degrees below normal. About 25 mm of rainfall was recorded this morning. With, this a total of 65.3 mm of rainfall has been recorded in Delhi in the last 24 hours. The weatherman said these showers were an offshoot of south-easterly winds blowing through the capital for the last few days.

With the influence of the easterlies prevailing, more showers are expected in the coming days. The Met office has forecast a cloudy sky in Delhi during the next 24 hours with few more spells of rain and thunder showers accompanied with squalls in some areas.

They also predicted a fall in the maximum temperature in Delhi to 35 degrees today.

The BBC also forecast some heavy rains in the capital in the next two to three days.

UNI