Several parts of the city and NCR, notably east and west areas, received heavy showers on Friday morning. The remaining parts of the city had to make do with light drizzle but pleasant temperatures of 28-32 degrees made up for the lack of rain.

The Safdarjung observatory recorded 2.8mm of rainfall till 5.30pm on Friday. The past 24 hour rainfall recorded at 8.30am was 5.2mm. There were reports of heavy showers in Gurgaon and short spells of heavy rain in South Extension, Maharani Bagh, Ashram and Pragati Maidan. The Lodhi Road and Ridge observatories recorded 0.6mm and 0.3mm of rainfall respectively.

The maximum and minimum temperatures were 30.2 degrees, six degrees below normal, and 27.4 degrees Celsius respectively. Humidity ranged between 75% and 87%. "The coming two days are expected to see widespread rain and isolated heavy showers. Monsoon showers need not be experienced similarly, with identical intensity over all parts of the city, so it is perfectly normal that some areas are getting heavier showers than the others," said the duty officer at the Met office.

A Met official added: "In the next 48 hours, fairly widespread rain and thundershowers can be expected over western Himalayan region, Punjab, Haryana, western and eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Sikkim, eastern Rajasthan, western Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat, after which the intensity will reduce. After July 10, a decrease in rainfall activity is expected over northwest India."

The monsoon system progressed further to cover almost all of Gujarat and should cover the remaining areas of Rajasthan in the next two to three days, encompassing the entire country in the process. It was quite active over most parts of the country in June with northwest and central India receiving above normal rainfall. Overall, the country received rainfall 11% in excess of normal. Northwest India, with a normal of 69.4mm for June, saw 72% rainfall over that. Delhi itself recorded 90.7mm rainfall against a normal of 55mm.

South Peninsula region, along with east and northeast India, saw a slight deficiency of 1% and 8% respectively. BP Yadav, director, IMD, said June's record was not an indication of the overall monsoon and things could change drastically in the remaining three months of the season.

The weather in June was also cooler than normal in the capital. Thanks to the rain caused primarily due to a series of low-level cyclonic circulations moving across the northwestern parts of the country, Delhi's maximum and minimum temperatures were from normal to much below normal for most days. The city recorded an average maximum temperature of 37.9 degrees Celsius against a normal average of 39.3 degrees Celsius. The average minimum was 27 degrees Celsius against a normal average of 28.3 degrees Celsius.