IMD issues yellow alert, forecasts moderate rain today

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After Monday rain, the temperatures to fall, predicts IMD.

After Monday rain, the temperatures to fall, predicts IMD. | Photo Credit: File photo

The India Meteorological Department has issued a yellowish alert for Delhi connected Monday, forecasting airy to mean rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning, on with gusty winds reaching speeds of 30-40 kmph, with immoderate gusts up to 50 Kmph.

The rain, it said, is owed to an aggravated Western Disturbance that is apt to origin dense to precise dense rainfall and hailstorms implicit Northwest India till October 8. Following the bedewed spell, the IMD has said that the minimum temperatures are apt to autumn by 4-5 degrees Celsius.

The IMD forecast for Delhi connected October 6 reads, “A fewer spells of airy to mean rainfall precise apt astatine galore places accompanied with thunderstorms/lightning and upwind velocity reaching to 30 – 40 kmph gusting to 50 kmph. The maximum and minimum temperatures implicit Delhi are apt to beryllium successful the scope of 28 to 30 degrees Celsius and 22 to 24 degrees Celsius respectively.” 

For October 7, the IMD predicts that airy rainfall with upwind volition continue, with minimum temperatures expected to autumn further, settling betwixt 22 and 20 degrees Celsius. The entity is apt to crook wide connected October 8. The precocious upwind speeds are apt to support contamination astatine bay.

It was a bedewed commencement to October, with rains lashing the Capital connected October 2, bringing alleviation from the above-average temperatures that had been prevalent successful the past week of September, aft the Monsoon officially made its withdrawal from the metropolis connected September 24. 

The months of May, June, July, August, and September person recorded above-average rainfall this year. So far, October, which is simply a comparatively adust month, has had 2 rainy days.

Published - October 06, 2025 01:41 americium IST

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