Delhi wakes up to cool Monday, thanks to overnight rains

Delhiites today woke up to a rainy morning with the minimum temperature settling at 24 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal.

The Met office earlier forecast a partly cloudy day with possibility of dust storm followed by rain in the evening.

Maximum temperature is likely to hover around 39 degrees Celsius.

The Met office also forecasted heavy rains at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and South Interior Karnataka.

Thunderstorm accompanied by squall is also likely to occur at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

Owing to bad weather condition, more than 25 flights were diverted from Delhi yesterday.

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flight from Karnataka was diverted from Delhi to Jaipur, but landed in the national capital at around 12:10 a.m.

Yesterday, the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 41.5 and 31.6 degrees Celsius.