New Delhi: Delhiites can expect relief from the scorching heat soon as the MET department predicts early monsoon in the city.
Pre-monsoon showers are expected in Delhi and other parts of north-west India during the next three days even as some parts of the city received rain this morning.
The south-west monsoon will hit Uttar Pradesh and Delhi at least a week ahead of schedule. The national capital region is likely to get rains in about a week from now.
The latest figures from the weather office released on Wednesday evening show most parts of the country getting excess rains since the onset of monsoon over Kerala on June 1. India Meteorological Department Director General LS Rathore had said monsoon was expected to bring its showers to Delhi at least a week ahead of the normal onset date of June 29. The earliest onset over Delhi was on 2008 when monsoon rains reached the capital on June 15.
Monsoon has already covered 50 per cent of the country's landmass bringing 23 per cent excess rains to states like Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and parts of Gujarat.
"The northern limit of monsoon continues to pass through Okha, Ahmedabad, Rajgarh, Satna, Ranchi, Berhampore, Jalpaiguri and Gangtok," a weather official had said.
Though June rainfall accounts for only about 18 per cent of the total rains during the four-month monsoon season, they are important as they set the tone for the sowing of the kharif crops.
The IMD, in its annual long term forecast issued in April, had forecast a normal monsoon this year with 98 per cent rainfall of the long period average.
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