1/9 - Heavy rain lashes parts of Delhi
Heavy rain, accompanied by strong winds, lashed parts of Delhi on Monday.
2/9 - Tuesday forecast: Generally cloudy skies with the possibility of very light rain
The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to hover around 26 and 16 degrees Celsius, respectively on Tuesday.
3/9 - Weather Department has issued an orange alert for the city
Delhi was hit by rain and hailstorm on Sunday and Saturday, bringing some respite from the warm weather.
4/9 - At 4 pm, Delhi's 24-hour AQI was recorded in 'moderate' category at 154
An AQI between zero and 50 is considered \'good\', 51 and 100 \'satisfactory\', 101 and 200 \'moderate\', 201 and 300 \'poor\', 301 and 400 \'very poor\', and 401 and 500 \'severe\'.
5/9 - 10 flights diverted to other cities
Due to bad weather conditions in the national capital, a total of 10 flights were diverted to other airports on Monday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.
6/9 - Air quality likely to remain in 'moderate' category for next 6 days.
"Overall air quality is likely to be within \'moderate\' or \'upper end of satisfactory\' for the next three days due to moderate dispersion by surface wind speed as well as wash out by likely rain spells," SAFAR said.
7/9 - Traffic snarl at many places
Rainfall was received at entire Delhi between 5.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Safdarjung received 06.6 mm rain along with maximum gusty winds 32 kmph and thunderstorm.
8/9 - Moderate surface winds likely to maintain dispersion and air quality
"Scattered to fairly widespread light/moderate rainfall with thunderstorm, lightning/gusty winds along with isolated hailstorm likely over Western Himalayan Region and Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan on March 20," IMD said.
9/9 - Pleasant weather conditions prevailed in Delhi during the day
The minimum temperature was recorded at 17.4 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, while humidity levels oscillated between 48 per cent and 94 per cent.
