Delhi is expected to receive light rain with thundershowers on Saturday, accompanied by gusty winds, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
“Partly cloudy sky, possibility of very light rain/thundershowers with strong surface winds (speed 25-35 kmph) during the day,” the weather department predicted. Tomorrow’s maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 39 and 24 degrees Celsius respectively, it added.
Delhi and adjoining areas of NCR received a spell of rain on Friday, bringing respite from the heat. The pre-monsoon rain was accompanied by strong winds, bringing down the temperature in the national capital.
Meanwhile, parts of India are presently reeling under the heatwave conditions. IMD has predicted that heatwave conditions in Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh will continue during the next five days.
Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are very likely to prevail in many places over Gangetic West Bengal, in some parts of Odisha and in isolated pockets over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal during the next 5 days, the IMD’s latest bulletin read.
Heat wave conditions in isolated pockets over Bihar, Jharkhand, Telangana, Rayalaseema, Interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, East Uttar Pradesh during the next 5 days; Kerala & Mahe during 26-28; Konkan during 27-29 and West Uttar Pradesh, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam during 28-30, it added.