Amid scorching heatwave throughout the day, a massive dust storm swept the national capital and the adjoining NCR region on Saturday evening while bringing the visibility almost down to zero.
The dust storm was accompanied with dark clouds and rains. Due to the thundershowers the temperature came down rapidly making the weather pleasant.
“The scorching sun was blotted out by the clouds and the weather cooled at around 2 PM. Soon after that, the city experienced a moderate – intensity storm,” PTI quoted MeT officials as saying.
Speaking to news agency ANI, director of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) BP Yadav said, “Storm in Delhi & NCR today was at speed of 84 km/hr, weather will be pleasant for next 2-3 days.”
“Clouds will hover over parts of North and West India, rainfall will continue in coming days,” he added.
Delhi, which has been recording day temperatures around 43°C, has also registered a drop in the maximum temperatures. At 3:00 PM the temperature was 39.2°C which came down to 28°C till 4:00 PM today.
From past few days Delhi has been witnessing dust storms, which have travelled from Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana, as per MeT officials.
According to Skymet Meteorology Division in India, it is the Western Disturbance over the hills along with the induced cyclonic circulation over south Rajasthan that has increased the pre-Monsoon activity over North India.
Meanwhile, one Delhi Police jawan was injured when he was hit by a flying object during the duststorm in Hauz Khaz area of the city. Separately, a man was severely hurt when an electric pole fell on him in Pool Mithai area of North Delhi, as per news agency ANI.
Due to heavy rains several areas of Delhi-NCR had to face water-logging problem and the traffic movement also got affected.