The Safdarjung station, representative of the city’s weather, has received 775.8mm rain so far this year, surpassing the annual average of 774.4mm, with 12 days remaining in August — the city’s wettest month — and more than a third of the year still to come, according to data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The city passed this threshold even sooner in 2021, when it got 780.1mmof rain by August 1, and 1,526.8mm of rain all year. Last year, Delhi recorded 811.4mm of rain.
To be sure, the city logs a bulk of its rainfall in the monsoon months of June, July and August. The last four months of the year only receive a combined 152.6mmof rain.
Still, showers on Saturday morning took commuters by surprise and inundated several parts of the Capital, with reports of waterlogging in Najafgarh, Punjabi Bagh and neighbourhoods along the Outer Ring Road.
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