New Delhi: The long delayed monsoon arrived in Delhi on Tuesday. The rain splashed many parts of Delhi-NCR. The adjoining cities like Faridabad and Gurgaon also received rainfall in the morning. It led to massive traffic jams on many roads.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted moderate rain over Delhi this morning. The IMD tweeted, “Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and winds with speed of 20-40 km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of most places of Delhi, NCR (Bahadurgarh, Gurugram, Faridabad, Loni Dehat, Noida) Gohana, Sonipat, Rohtak (Haryana) Khekra (UP) during next 2 hours.”
13/07/2021: 10:30 IST; Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and winds with speed of 20-40 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of most places of Delhi , NCR ( Bahadurgarh, Gurugram, Manesar, Faridabad, Loni Dehat, Hindon AF Station, Ghaziabad, Noida) Karnal,
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) July 13, 2021
As per the IMD, the monsoon was expected to arrive on last Saturday. But that didn't happen and Delhi and its adjoining areas reeled under dry spell for quite a long time. On Tuesday, the IMD shared a tweet, “Southwest Monsoon has advanced into Delhi today, the 13th July 2021.”
Southwest Monsoon has advanced into Delhi today, the 13th July, 2021. @rajeevan61 pic.twitter.com/Y24OlzE7f5
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) July 13, 2021
Meteorology Vice President at Skymet Weather Mahesh Palawat shared a video from Faridabad and said the rain may “cover entire Delhi soon.”
Welcome #monsoon. #Rain in #Faridabad. May cover entire #Delhi soon. #DellhiRain @SkymetWeather pic.twitter.com/snhwSlMje8
— Mahesh Palawat (@Mpalawat) July 13, 2021
ANI shared a tweet with a visual of Akbar Road, Delhi, “#WATCH Delhi witnesses heavy showers; visuals from Akbar Road.”
#WATCH Delhi witnesses heavy showers; visuals from Akbar Road pic.twitter.com/6JfL3aXgbP
— ANI (@ANI) July 13, 2021
Madhavan Rajeevan, Secretary at the Ministry of Earth Sciences tweeted, “Finally Monsoon Rains over Delhi! Even though monsoon conditions were prevailing last 2-3 days, India Met department was waiting for these rains to declare monsoon onset. Last 2 days it rained everywhere surrounding Delhi, except Delhi.”
13/07/2021: 10:30 IST; Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and winds with speed of 20-40 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of most places of Delhi , NCR ( Bahadurgarh, Gurugram, Manesar, Faridabad, Loni Dehat, Hindon AF Station, Ghaziabad, Noida) Karnal,
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) July 13, 2021
According to the IMD, the southwest monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of the country including Delhi, the remaining parts of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan. Thus, the southwest monsoon covered the entire country on July 13, against the normal date of July 8.
