New Delhi:

Delhi in August received 378.5 mm of rainfall — the city’s highest in 12 years, according to the India Meteorological Department.

The Safdarjung Observatory registered 378.5 mm of rainfall till Thursday, surpassing the previous high of 321.4 mm recorded in August 2013, the IMD said.

The highest precipitation in last 15 years was recorded in 2010 when the city received 455.1 mm of rainfall, IMD data shows.

The second-highest was in 2012, with 378.8 mm, followed by 321.4 mm in 2013. This third-highest mark was surpassed on August 29, 2023.

The all-time record for August rainfall in Delhi stands at 583.3 mm in 1961, according to the IMD data.

After the early morning shower on Thursday, the Safdarjung Observatory, the city’s primary weather station, recorded 77 mm of rainfall bringing the total rainfall for the monsoon season to 825.5 mm.

This figure has already exceeded Delhi’s annual average rainfall of 762.3 mm.

According to Mahesh Palawat of Skymet Weather Services, Delhi’s annual average rainfall is 762.3 mm and the city has already received 825.5 mm so far.

The MeT department has issued a “yellow” alert for Delhi for Thursday. It denotes bad weather and the possibility of worsening conditions that could disrupt daily life, according to the IMD’s colour-coded warnings.

The IMD has predicted a cloudy sky with moderate rain for Thursday, with the maximum and minimum temperatures likely to hover around 34 and 23 degrees Celsius respectively.

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New Delhi:

A 34-year-old woman died of electrocution on Saturday morning when she placed her foot in the rain water collected at a roadside in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura, police said.

The incident took place in the C Block area of Yamuna Vihar near Moral Hospital at 7.39 am, they said.

The woman, Poonam, was on her way to the local market on foot when she was electrocuted, a police officer said.

Poonam was a homemaker and her husband runs a general store in the same locality, he said.

The officer said there was water logging in the area due to yesterday’s rain.

“A live wire from an electricity pole near the footpath caused her to get electrocuted and fall in the water. She was rushed to Moral Hospital, where the doctor declared her dead,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirky said.

Police have filed a case of death by negligence against unknown persons in the matter, he said

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