After 62 years, monsoon covers Delhi, Mumbai together

 

 

THE monsoon on Sunday covered both Delhi and Mumbai together for the first time since June 21, 1961, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. While it hit the national capital two days before schedule, its entry into the financial capital is two weeks late, the Met office said. “It is the first time since June 21, 1961, that the monsoon arrived in Delhi and Mumbai at the same time,” said D S Pai, a senior scientist at the India Meteorological Department (IMD). In Mumbai, the Colaba Observatory, representative of the island city, recorded 86 mm rainfall in the 24-hour period ending at 8.30 am on Sunday while the Santacruz weather station, representative of the suburbs, registered 176.1 mm in the same period, according to the IMD.

 

“The southwest monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, some parts of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana, the remaining parts of Uttarakhand and most parts of Himachal Pradesh and some more parts of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh today (June 25),” the IMD said in a statement. The northern limit of monsoon has now passed through Veraval, Baroda, Udaipur, Narnaul, Ambala and Katra. Conditions are favourable for further advance of the monsoon into some more parts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and the remaining parts of Jammu and Kashmir during the next two days, the IMD said.