Morning showers continue in Delhi, monsoon onset on Wednesday: IMD

Ar spell of early-morning rains made wear pleasant in national capital on Monday, but heavy showers left many areas in city waterlogged. IMD said rains are going to continue over next few days with monsoon expected to reach city on Wednesday.

rains are a result of a trough running from rth Punjab to rthwest Bay of Bengal across Haryana, south Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and rth coastal Odisha. Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative figures for Delhi, recorded 43.8 mm rainfall over last 24 hours till 8.30 am. wear station at Lodhi Road gauged 44.4 mm precipitation, according to IMD. Many areas in city and key road stretches reported heavy waterlogging.

Kuldeep Srivastava, head of regional forecasting centre of India Meteorological Department, said on and off pre-monsoon rains are going to continue in national capital on Monday and Tuesday. monsoon will reach city by Wednesday after covering western Uttar Pradesh.

According to wear experts, earlier than usual arrival of monsoon in Delhi can be attributed to a cyclonic circulation over West Bengal and neighbourhood which moved towards southwest Uttar Pradesh on June 19 and 20.

"It helped in furr advancement of monsoon, it is expected to cover west Uttar Pradesh, and some parts of Uttarakhand by June 22 and 23," Srivastava said.

reafter, it will make an onset in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab starting Wednesday, he said. IMD has predicted 103 per cent (rmal) rainfall for Delhi this monsoon season.