The India Meteorological Department has said that Delhi was not likely to receive any more rainfall this month, PTI reported on Thursday.
The Capital has only received rainfall only thrice in September, the lowest since 2016, when there were only two rainy days. Further, it has recorded 81% less rainfall in September so far, according to the weather agency’s data.
The last time it rained in Delhi was on September 8, according to the Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative data for the city. The city had recorded 1.3 mm of rainfall on the day.
“The monsoon is likely to start withdrawing from Rajasthan on September 26,” Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the India Meteorological Department’s regional forecasting centre, said. “Thereafter, it will recede from Delhi, Haryana, west Uttar Pradesh simultaneously by September last week.”
The temperature was also…