Delhi Weather: Rain Lashes Parts of City For Second Day in a Row, IMD issues Orange alert

On Friday, the mercury plummeted to 1.1 degrees Celsius, the lowest in 15 years for January, and "very dense" fog lowered visibility to "zero" metres.

New Delhi: Parts of the national capital received a spell of rainfall on Sunday morning. With this, both the maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to dip further in the city, which is already battling a bone-chilling cold. The Indian Meteorological Department has also issued an ‘orange alert’ for Monday, due to the chances of hailstorm activity.

“Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rainfall to occur over some parts of South-Delhi (Ayanagar, Deramandi, Tughalkabad ), and some districts of Haryana”, said the IMD.

Delhi: The national capital receives a spell of rainfall

Visuals from a section of National Highway 24 near Akshardham

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted thunderstorm and light to moderate rainfall over parts of Delhi and Haryana for today pic.twitter.com/yeS9mcy7rA

— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2021

Yesterday, parts of the national capital received light rain, while the minimum temperature rose to 7 degrees Celsius due to a cloud cover over the city.

#WATCH I Delhi: Rain lashes parts of the national capital; visuals from near Barakhamba Road pic.twitter.com/hMjERKdvCX

— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2021

On Friday, the mercury plummeted to 1.1 degrees Celsius, the lowest in 15 years for January, and “very dense” fog lowered visibility to “zero” metres. On January 8, 2006, the city had recorded a minimum of 0.2 degree Celsius. The all-time record is minus 0.6 degree Celsius registered in January 1935.

The lowest minimum temperature recorded in January last year was 2.4 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.

Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the IMD’s regional forecasting centre, said the minimum temperature has started rising under the influence of the “intense” western disturbance, which will affect northwest India till January 6.