<p class="title">Monsoon made its onset over the national capital, after a delay of six days, with the city recording 25 mm of rainfall till Friday evening.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Normally, the wind system reaches the city on June 29.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kuldeep Srivastava, senior scientist at the India Meteorological Department (IMD), said the department declared the onset of monsoon over Delhi at 8.30 am.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The wind system has covered western Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, east Haryana and the Delhi-NCR region, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Officials said the Safdarjung Observatory, which provides official figures for the city, gauged 25 mm of rainfall till 5.30 pm. As a result of the rains, the humidity levels shot up to 100 per cent.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The weather station at Lodhi Road recorded 27.8 mm of precipitation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The rains caused the maximum temperature to drop to 34.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal. The minimum temperature stood at 26.9 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The weather office has predicted light to moderate rains on Saturday. The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to hover around 33 and 25 degrees Celsius, respectively.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Thursday, the city witnessed its first spell of rains after 16 days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In June, the national capital recorded just 11.4 mm of rainfall against the 30-year average of around 55 mm, Srivastava said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rainfall in July will be marginally lower than the normal. Overall, it will be a normal monsoon. Normally, 60 cm of rain is recorded from June 1 to September 30 in Delhi, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Intermittent light rains are expected till July 10. Heavy showers are likely after that, Mahesh Palawat of Skymet Weather, a private forecaster, said. </p>
<p class="title">Monsoon made its onset over the national capital, after a delay of six days, with the city recording 25 mm of rainfall till Friday evening.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Normally, the wind system reaches the city on June 29.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kuldeep Srivastava, senior scientist at the India Meteorological Department (IMD), said the department declared the onset of monsoon over Delhi at 8.30 am.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The wind system has covered western Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, east Haryana and the Delhi-NCR region, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Officials said the Safdarjung Observatory, which provides official figures for the city, gauged 25 mm of rainfall till 5.30 pm. As a result of the rains, the humidity levels shot up to 100 per cent.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The weather station at Lodhi Road recorded 27.8 mm of precipitation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The rains caused the maximum temperature to drop to 34.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal. The minimum temperature stood at 26.9 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The weather office has predicted light to moderate rains on Saturday. The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to hover around 33 and 25 degrees Celsius, respectively.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Thursday, the city witnessed its first spell of rains after 16 days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In June, the national capital recorded just 11.4 mm of rainfall against the 30-year average of around 55 mm, Srivastava said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rainfall in July will be marginally lower than the normal. Overall, it will be a normal monsoon. Normally, 60 cm of rain is recorded from June 1 to September 30 in Delhi, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Intermittent light rains are expected till July 10. Heavy showers are likely after that, Mahesh Palawat of Skymet Weather, a private forecaster, said. </p>