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The locals of Delhi and the national capital region (NCR) today woke up to a rainy morning generating a drop in temperature. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain would occur in parts of Delhi and NCR during the next two hours on Wednesday.
Delhi-NCR witnesses sudden weather change pic.twitter.com/0N39xsFMaO
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Gurugram, Faridabad, Ballabhgarh) Panipat, Gohana, Gannaur, Sonipat, Rohtak (Haryana) Muzaffarnagar, Bijnaur, Khatauli, Sakoti Tanda, Hastinapur, Chandpur, Baraut, Daurala, Bagpat, Meerut, Khekra, Modinagar, Kithor, Garhmukteshwar, Pilakhua, Hapur, Gulaoti, Siyana,
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“Thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of North-West Delhi, South-West Delhi (Mundaka, Jafarpur, Nazafgarh), NCR (Bahadurgarh) Charkhi Dadri, Mattanhail, Jhajjar (Haryana) and in the adjoining areas of a few places of Delhi, NCR ( Hindon Air Force Station, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram) Karnal, Meham, Rohtak, Bhiwani (Haryana) Hastinapur, Chandpur, Amroha (UP) during next 2 hours,” the Met Office said in a statement.
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Warmest February in 63years
Earlier on Tuesday (February 28), the IMD stated that the average maximum temperature in Delhi for February this year has been pegged at 27.7 degrees Celsius, the third highest in the last 63 years. According to data shared by officials, the city registered a high of 32.1 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, at the Safdarjung observatory, the national capital’s primary weather station. It was seven notches above normal.
The city registered an average maximum temperature of 27.9 degrees Celsius in February at Safdarjung station in 1960. The corresponding figure in 2006 stood at 29.7 degrees Celsius and the reading for the year 2023 stands at 27.7 degrees Celsius, as per the data shared.
On Tuesday evening, the comparative humidity was recorded at 42 per cent, according to the IMD data. Delhi’s air quality stood in the ‘poor’ category as the air quality index (AQI) read 222 at 7 pm. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘severe’.
