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Monsoon to reach Delhi around usual date: Experts

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 6/21/2022 2:01:10 PM

New Delhi, June 20 The southwest monsoon will reach Delhi around its usual date, June 27, and the rain deficit will be compensated for by June end, meteorologists said on Monday. Pre-monsoon showers over the last three days have brought down the rain deficit in Delhi to 34 per cent and the maximum temperature to around 30 degrees Celsius. On Sunday, the Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi’s base station, recorded a maximum temperature of 30.7 degrees Celsius, the lowest so far this month since June 17, 2013. The city has gauged 23.8 mm of rain as against the normal of 36.3 mm since June 1, when the monsoon season starts. All of it came in the last four days. A cyclonic circulation will come up over parts of West Bengal, north Odisha and adjoining Bangladesh in the next two to three days which will change the wind pattern in the IndoGangetic plains, said G P Sharma, president (meteorology), Skymet Weather. This cyclonic circulation will initiate the typical easterly flow which is crucial for the advance of the monsoon into northwest India. Delhi will get the first monsoon rains around the usual date, if not exactly June 27,” he said. Senior India Meteorological Department (IMD) scientist R K Jenamani said the monsoon is progressing normally and there is no forecast of a system which could stall its progress for now