Delhi recieves second highest rainfall since May 2002

FREAKY WEATHER: Delhi has recorded 94 mm rainfall this month, the second highest since May 2002.

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New Delhi: A cyclone in Myanmar has taken an estimated 80,000 lives, Northern India witnessed the strongest squall in 10 years and now the Capital is witnessing heavy rains — setting a record of the heaviest rainfall on a single day in May in the last six years.

Delhi was lashed by 36.9 mm of showers during the past 24 hours — the second highest recorded in the month of May in the last six years with the city receiving 94 mm of rainfall this month.

The highest recorded rainfall for the month of May in Delhi was 129.3 in 2002.

Summer this year has barely set in the Capital with the minimum temperature hitting 20.3 degrees, also the lowest in the last five years.

The Met department says that while the rainfall is heavy, it's not unusual.

"Rain and thunderstorm in the month of May is not unusual," says Director of the Weather Forecasting department, BP Yadav.

However, many environmentalists say that one of the most obvious outcomes of global warming is this phenomenon of erratic weather.

"This is an indication that we will face more precipitation and more heat waves," says Chairman IPCC, RK Pachauri.

The UN-led and IPCC has predicted that by 2080, two million homes will be hit hard by coastal flooding and the intensity of cyclones in the subcontinent will increase and over one billion people will face water scarcity.

In 2008 London faced its worst floods in July and Australia is in the middle of its worst drought in 1000 years.

There is clearly a pattern to the climate change chaos. However, if climate change proponents are to be believed, then this phenomenon is already irreversible.