After several wrong predictions, monsoon arrives in Delhi-NCR

The longdelayed monsoon finally arrived early on Tuesday giving muchneeded respite to the citizens in DelhiNCRThe national capital along with adjoining cities including Gurgaon Faridabad Noida and Ghaziabad have also received rainfallOn Monday evening the Met Department had predicted that the conditions were favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon over Delhi parts of West Uttar Pradesh some more parts of Punjab Haryana and RajasthanThunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and winds with speed of 2040 Kmh would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi NorthEast Delhi East Delhi NCR Noida Ghaziabad Sonipat Aurangabad Palwal Haryana IMD had tweeted on MondayThe SouthWest monsoon arrived in DelhiNCR after India Meteorological Departments IMD several predictions made in the last 15 days went wrongReacting to the arrival of monsoon on Tuesday Madhavan Rajeevan Secretary Ministry of Earth Sciences tweeted Finally Monsoon Rains over Delhi Even though monsoon conditions were prevailing the last 23 days India MET dept was waiting for these rains to declare the onset of monsoon Last 2 days it has rained everywhere surrounding Delhi except DelhiFinally Monsoon Rains over Delhi Even though monsoon conditions were prevailing last 23 days Indiametdept was waiting for these rains to declare monsoon onset Last 2 days it rained everywhere surrounding Delhi except DelhiDrJitendraSingh moesgoi pictwittercom6xqtGEBdRfmdash Madhavan Rajeevan rajeevan61 July 13 2021Rain realised over Delhi between 7 to 830 hrs of today the 13th July 2021 Safdarjung 25 cm Ayanagar 13 Palam 24 CHO Lodi Road 19 and Ridge 10 read another tweet of IMDAlso read Himachal Pradesh Heavy rain lashes Dharamsala causes flash floodlike situationDue to the delay in the arrival of the monsoon the MET Department had to face criticism On July 11 Madhavan Rajeevan responding to criticism on its wrong prediction had said We just dont download someones model forecast to provide users We have one of the best endtoend forecasting systems thanks to the Monsoon Mission Trust us we are one of the best and we will keep improving Our forecasts sometimes can go wrongThis year the rains were first predicted to make a record early march across the country initially predicted to hit Delhi by June 1315 But in the latter half of the month the progress slowed down before it eventually stalled and entered a threeweek break phaseThe Monsoon had reached almost all parts of the country but had stayed away from Delhi Haryana parts of west Uttar Pradesh and west Rajasthan The weather forecasting agency had predicted that monsoon is expected to cover these parts by June a little less than a month back but that did not happenK Jenamani a senior scientist at IMD has said they will study why the arrival of monsoon was delayed in Delhi despite favourable conditionsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever