The weather forecast for Delhi for the next five days is cloudy skies with light to moderate rain. The maximum temperature on Thursday was 37.6 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average. The affected areas include Loni Dehat, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Noida, Gurugram and Faridabad.
The Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) tweeted on [insert date] that thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain, heavy intensity rain over a few places, and gusty winds with speeds of 50-70 km/h are expected to occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR.
There is a chance of thunderstorms with light to moderate rain, and locally heavy rain, accompanied by gusty winds in Delhi and NCR today. The weather office said on Thursday that Delhi will see cloudy skies with light to moderate rain for the next five days. The maximum temperature on Thursday was 37.6 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature was 27.8 degrees Celsius.
The air quality in Delhi today is moderate, with an Air Quality Index of 123. The AQI is a measure of the pollutants in the air and is classified into six categories: good, satisfactory, moderate, poor, very poor and severe. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good and an AQI of 123 is in the moderate category.
The relative humidity at 5.30 pm was 64%, the weather office said. Two people died and over 150 houses were damaged when heavy rain caused walls to collapse and roads to flood in Odisha on Thursday. Many roads were submerged, cutting off access to some areas.
More than 11,000 people in Koraput, Malkangiri, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur, and Kalahandi have been affected by heavy rain, while Bolangir, Ganjam, Gajapati, and Rayagada have also been hit hard, according to the special relief commissioner's office.
Heavy rain is expected in 21 out of 30 districts of Odisha on Friday, as the low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal has boosted and become sufficient.