This Monsoon will disappoint you: weathermen

A day after the long-awaited monsoon arrived in the national Capital, weather experts on Monday poured water on the hopes of Delhiites forecasting only patchy rains with little possibility of sustained downpour. “Monsoon has arrived. Patchy rains are expected in Delhi on Monday. We don’t see heavy rains coming any sooner yet, though it might rain well on Tuesday for some time,” an official at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed it. The Monsoon rains here have also been deficient, but improved from 11 per cent deficiency on June 29, the day Monsoon normally arrives in Delhi, to six per cent on Sunday, July 3 — its officially declared date of arrival this year. 

According to Mahesh Palawat of private weather forecaster Skymet, Delhi has not received typical Monsoon rainfall for the past five years. “Normal Monsoon, in which it continues raining or drizzling for many hours, is because of the formation of Altostratus or Stratus clouds which are low and mid-sheet type. In Delhi, we are only getting Cumulonimbus clouds resulting in patchy rains for a short span of time,” said Palawat. Experts say that climate change, disturbance in green cover, urbanisation around Delhi and NCR as well as change in the pattern of Monsoon at large are some of the reasons why Delhi no longer receives good rainfall.