New Delhi: This year’s monsoon in Delhi is tipped to be of the longest duration in more than 50 years with another spell of light to moderate rainfall likely this weekend while Dussehra revelries are on in the city.
According to the MeT department, the length of the current southwest monsoon is likely to exceed 120 days, breaking the previous record of 111 days recorded 57 years back.
“The southwest monsoon’s withdrawal from north west India is likely to get delayed and break the previous record of latest withdrawal in 1956 and 1959, when it had occurred on October 13,” said Dr OP Singh, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, Regional Meteorological Centre, New Delhi.
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