Overnight rain brings relief in Delhi, more rainfall expected through the day.
New Delhi: The national capital witnessed clear skies and a pleasant morning on Thursday as the city’s minimum temperature plummeted by four degrees after an overnight rain, with more predicted during the day.
According to the weather office, the minimum temperature on Thursday was recorded at 23.8 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average.
Meanwhile, the much-awaited southwest monsoon is likely to advance into parts of Gangetic West Bengal bringing down high day and night temperatures and humidity in the region and also into the entire sub-Himalayan West Bengal within a day, the Met department said.
Widespread thundershowers with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely in the sub-Himalayan districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar during the next five days owing to strong southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal, the weatherman said.
Meanwhile, a recent Air Quality Life Index report by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute says that air pollution shortens lives by almost ten years. The report identified India as the world’s second most polluted country, with Bangladesh being the most polluted country in the world.
In a move to prevent fires at dumpsites and the subsequent deterioration of air quality in the national capital, Delhi’s pollution control body has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to ensure that organic waste from slaughterhouses and fish markets do not end up in the landfill sites.
It has also asked the MCD to ensure that industrial as well as electronic waste, including lithium batteries, is not dumped at the landfill sites.
Monsoon likely to enter Odisha in 48 hrs: IMD
The southwest monsoon is likely to make an onset over Odisha during the next 48 hours, the IMD said.
Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district and some other places in the southern part of Odisha have already started experiencing pre-monsoon rainfall, the Bhubaneswar Centre of IMD’s Meteorological Department said Wednesday.
One or two places in 16 districts of the coastal state are likely to experience thunderstorm accompanied by lightning for 24 hours beginning from 8.30 am on June 15, the weather office said.
Incessant rainfall triggers flood-like situation in several parts of Guwahati
Incessant rainfall triggered a flood-like situation in several parts of Guwahati, including Rukmini Gaon, Anil Nagar, Nabin Nagar, Hatigaon, Zoo Road areas.
On Tuesday, June 14, four people were killed in a massive landslide in Guwahati amid heavy rains that flooded the city, officials said. With this, the toll in this year’s flood and landslides has gone up to 42.
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