A fresh spell of heavy rainfall lashed parts of Delhi and its NCR region since the wee hours of Saturday and is expected to continue for the next four days, bringing relief from sultry weather conditions, said India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) has predicted thunderstorms with ‘light to moderate rain or heavy rain’ over isolated places and gusty winds with a speed of 30-50 km/hour would occur over and adjoining areas of the national capital.
Visuals of the rains have been posted by news agency ANI, showing sudden showers on Saturday early morning in the national capital.
According to the weather agency, the predominant surface wind is set to enter from the West of Delhi, with a wind speed of 12-20 kmph, along with a cloudy sky and the possibility of light to moderate rain.
Meanwhile, the air quality (AQI) of Anand Vihar in Delhi remained to be a very poor category at 5 am on Saturday. However, the overall Delhi AQI is forecast to be satisfactory around the weekend amid the fresh spell of showers predicted in Delhi-NCR.
On Thursday, AQI was in the moderate category in the national capital, with the average air quality being recorded at 148 (moderate) at 10 am on Friday. It was 131 (moderate) at 4 pm.
The CPCB classifies an AQI between 0-50 as ‘good,’ between 51 and 100 as ‘satisfactory,’ between 101 and 200 as ‘moderate, between 201 and 300 as ‘poor,’ between 301 and 400 as ‘very poor’ and over 400 as ‘severe.
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