Delhi Rain: IMD weather scientist Dr Naresh Kumar said the date for the arrival of monsoon in Delhi-NCR was yet to be announced.
New Delhi:Delhi and its neighbouring areas witnessed rain on Tuesday afternoon. The showers came as a relief amid weeks of scorching heat. "It was pre-monsoon rain," Dr Naresh Kumar, the India Meteorological Department's senior scientist, told NDTV.
"The temperature dropped rapidly due to the rain," he said.
He said the date for the arrival of monsoon in Delhi-NCR was yet to be announced. The normal date for the monsoon to arrive in Delhi is around June 30. According to IMD data, the monsoon reached Delhi on June 28 last year and on June 26 in 2023.
"Today, monsoon reached West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar," he said. Monsoon rains covered almost the entire western Maharashtra and entered neighbouring Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh on Monday.
He said that, according to the latest forecast, the monsoon may reach areas of northwestern India within the next three to four days.
Dr Kumar said that the monsoon is in an active phase. "The reason is that at present there are two low-pressure areas - one is over Gujarat, the other over West Bengal".
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