new delhi it was the perfect weather for all those who could not get away from the city over the long weekend unlike the earlier daylong spells of good weather the capital enjoyed a very pleasant weekend with both saturday and sunday recording rain sunday remained overcast for almost the entire day and several parts of the city witnessed a continuous drizzle all through the morning and afternoon some areas were lucky enough to be blessed with short spells of heavy rainthe temperature on sunday also dipped to 305 degrees celsius three degrees below normal the minimum meanwhile was 252 degrees celsius one degree below normal till 830 pm the safdarjung observatory recorded 125 mm rainfall most of it occurring after 530pmthe indogangetic plains and adjoining hilly areas and the northeastern states have been getting good amount of rain in the past two days the monsoon has been active over northeastern states up and rayalseema a fair amount of rain has occurred over the remaining parts of indogangetic plains and central india this is due to the placement of the monsoon trough which at present is very close to its original position then there are two cyclonic circulations one over western up and neighbouring areas and another over northern chhatisgarh and neighbouring areas the combined effect of all three systems is causing the heavy rain we are expecting this weather to last for another 23 days said dr mohapatra director imdwithin a span of 24 hours till 830am on sunday the city had seen a total of 141mm rain however even now delhis monsoon is deficient by about 37 till august 12 northwest india on the whole had 43 deficient monsoonfor delhiites who had been craving for sustained monsoon activity the change in weather could not have come at a better time the weekend has been absolutely brilliant normally i would end up wasting my time at home since it would be so hot and muggy however i was out almost the entire day on both saturday and sunday sunday evening was reserved for the family and we spent it in lodhi garden im so glad this time wasnt wasted in office said anuradha talwar a choreographer