India, Sept. 30 -- With the intense post-monsoon showers that lashed the capital on Tuesday, October has already logged 'excess' rains in one day, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Safdarjung, the city's base station for weather, received 37.8mm of rainfall between 8.30am and 5.30pm. Since the IMD counts rain on the last day of the month after 8:30 am as rainfall for the first day of the next month, Delhi has crossed the long-period average (LPA) for rain in October of 15.1mm - making this the sixth straight month since May to record excess rain this year.

Last year, October saw zero rainfall. While October 2023 recorded 5.4mm of rain, October 2022 saw 128.4mm of rainfall - the highest for October in the last decad...