New Delhi: The national capital is likely to witness light rain and pleasant weather conditions as clouds cover the town on Tuesday morning The India Meteorological Department has predicted light rain during the day.
The weatherman said that the national capital is likely to witness cloudy skies and light rain on Republic Day, reported PTI.
Delhi’s primary weather station, the Safdarjung Observatory, recorded a minimum temperature of 12.3 degrees Celsius, around five notches above normal and the highest this month so far.
The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 24 degrees Celsius, the report added.
The city recorded a maximum temperature of 25.9 degrees Celsius on Monday, the highest in the month in four years, PTI mentioned citing India Meteorological Department data.
It said that light rainfall is predicted over Delhi during the day and the subsequent two days under the influence of an intense western disturbance affecting northwest India.
Earlier on Sunday, the IMD predicted that several parts of North India, including Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh, are expected to receive light isolated rainfall for the upcoming week.
As per the India Meteorological Department, “Light isolated rainfall very likely over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on 23rd and increase thereafter with scattered to fairly widespread rainfall accompanied by thunderstorm activity during 24th- 26th January, 2023.”
The IMD informed that the minimum temperatures remained in the range of 6-10 degrees Celsius over many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Rajasthan, Bihar, East Rajasthan, and northwest Madhya Pradesh in the past 24 hours.
The weather department said that minimum temperatures will rise by 2-3 degrees Celsius over many parts of East India during the next 3 days. They further predicted that dense fog is very likely to prevail during night and morning hours over Himachal Pradesh and Bihar during the next 24 hours and Odisha during the next 48 hours.
According to IMD, an induced cyclonic circulation lies over southwest Rajasthan and neighbourhood. The Western Disturbance is very likely to move slowly eastwards and with high moisture feeding from the Arabian Sea into the western Himalayan Region at lower and middle tropospheric levels from 24th to 26th January.
