Delhi weather alert! IMD predicts rainfall and thunderstorm in these parts of NCR

Delhi Weather Alert: Delhi recorded its highest rainfall in a day for January in 22 years on Saturday, yielding the city's best air quality in over two months even as the minimum temperature settled at 15 degrees Celsius, eight notches above normal, as per a PTI report. 

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Now, the Indian Meteorological Department has predicted that thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain with few spells of heavy intensity rain will lash Delhi and several areas in the national capital region (NCR) on January 9, 2022. 

IMD has tweeted from its official Twitter handle, "09/01/2022: 03:35 IST; Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain with few spells of heavy intensity rain would continue to occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR ( Loni Dehat, Hindon AF Station, Bahadurgarh, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Chhapraula, Noida,"

09/01/2022: 03:35 IST; Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain with few spells of heavy intensity rain would continue to occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR ( Loni Dehat, Hindon AF Station, Bahadurgarh, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Chhapraula, Noida,

— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) January 8, 2022

The tweet further added these places in the list -  Dadri, Greater Noida, Gurugram, Manesar), Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain with heavy intensity rain over isolated places would continue to occur over and adjoining areas of Karnal, Safidon, Panipat, Gohana, Gannaur, Sonipat, Rohtak, Kharkhoda, Mattanhail, Jhajjar, Farukhnagar, Kosali, Sohana (Haryana) Saharanpur, Deoband, Nazibabad, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Kandhla, Bijnaur, Khatauli, Sakoti Tanda, Hastinapur, Chandpur, Baraut, Daurala, Bagpat, Meerut, Khekra, Modinagar, Kithor, Amroha, Moradabad, Garhmukteshwar, Rampur, Pilakhua, Hapur, Gulaoti, Siyana, Sambhal, Billari, Sikandrabad, Chandausi, Bulandshahar, Jahangirabad, Anupshahar, Bahajoi, Shikarpur, Khurja, Pahasu, Debai, Narora, Gabhana, Jattari, Atrauli, Khair, Aligarh, Iglas, Sikandra Rao, Hathras, Jalesar (U.P.) and Bhiwari (Rajasthan). 

The PTI report further added that according to Central Pollution Control Board's 24-hour AQI bulletin at 4 pm on Saturday, Delhi's AQI was 91, in the 'satisfactory' category. The last time Delhi's air was in this category was on October 25 last year.
Weather officials said the drastic improvement in the city's air quality was due to rains because of back-to-back western disturbances and high-speed winds of up to 15-20 kmph sweeping through the region.

The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said the AQI may further improve to the ?good? category due prevailing rains and high-speed winds.

"Today's (Saturday) rain spells with relatively high winds are likely to continue causing further improvement of air quality to 'good' or 'lower end of satisfactory' due to wet deposition and strong dispersion," the SAFAR said.

It added that from January 9 onwards, the air quality is likely to degrade due to gradual decrease in maximum and minimum temperatures as well as wind speed, all contributing to low dispersion of pollutants.

The air quality index in nearby Noida was recorded at 84, Greater Noida 72, Ghaziabad 108, Faridabad 103 and Gurugram 106.
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'.