Delhi Records Warmest Day Of This Year, Mercury Touch Nearly 30 Degree Celsius

Delhi has been heating up abnormally early in the month. Mercury has surpassed the previous day’s high for the third consecutive day. The warmest day of this year started on Sunday, 09th Feb and completed a hat trick yesterday. These are early days of February and the temperature has soared to about 30°C. The base station at Safdarjung recorded a maximum temperature of 29.7°C, the highest of this year so far, and about 6°C above the normal.

As per the pentad normal temperatures for Delhi, the month of February starts at about 23°C and reaches close to 26°-27°C in the fag end. Usually, high temperatures of about 30°C are frequent in the closing days of the month. Generally, a mercury level of 30°C starts around mid-March and shoots to 35°C at the end of the month.

Rising levels of temperature are attributable to prolonged dry weather conditions, slow surface winds and the passage of weak western disturbances across the mountains. The temperature is expected to rise today also and may reach 28°C. Western disturbance is likely to move away tonight and broad clearance over the mountains is expected for the next three days, between 13th and 15th Feb 2025. In the wake of the system, cool northwesterly winds will raise the temperature differential and strengthen the low-level winds. Any further rise of mercury is unlikely for the next three days. Rather, the day temperature may ease out by about 2°-3°C during this period.

The relief from the rising temperatures is likely to be short and sweet. Another western disturbance is approaching on 16th Feb and followed by another one in quick succession. While the day temperatures may rise once again to about 29°C, the induced systems of the western disturbance may bring sporadic showers, albeit light and scattered. A partly cloudy sky with fleeting rains is likely between 16th-17th Feb and again between 19th and 21st Feb, with more probability on the latter occasion.