A mud storm is seen at Kartavya Path in New Delhi on Might 17, 2025.
| Picture Credit score: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap

A mud storm adopted by rain was witnessed in components of Delhi on Saturday (Might 17, 2025), with the climate division predicting gusty winds and extra showers within the coming hours.

A number of areas in Delhi’s central, south, southwest, north zones and components of the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR), together with Noida, skilled rain, thunderstorms and mud storms.

In its newest climate notification, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) stated, “In continuation of the earlier climate alert, mud storms adopted by thunderstorms with gentle to average rainfall, lightning, and gusty winds of 40-60 kmph are very prone to happen throughout Delhi and NCR within the coming hours.” Some components of Delhi NCR, together with Noida, additionally reported tree uprooting because of the storm.

In the meantime, the utmost temperature within the nationwide capital settled at 40.8 levels celsius, 0.4 notch above regular.

The minimal temperature on Saturday (Might 17, 2025) was 24.3 levels Celsius, 2.2 notches under regular.

The IMD has forecast a thunderstorm with rain for Sunday (Might 18, 2025). The utmost and minimal temperatures are prone to settle round 42 levels Celsius and 28 levels Celsius, respectively.

In the meantime, Delhi’s 24-hour common Air High quality Index (AQI) knowledge, which updates every day by 4 p.m., was not shared by the Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB).

Nonetheless, the hourly knowledge at 6 p.m. confirmed the AQI within the “average” class with a studying of 157.

An AQI between zero and 50 is taken into account “good”, 51 and 100 “passable”, 101 and 200 “average”, 201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and 400 “very poor”, and 401 and 500 “extreme”.