Dr RK Jenamani, an IMD scientist said that Delhi will witness a drop in tempurature from Monday, and the rainfall will stop.
The minimum temperature was recorded at 4.6°C in the Safdarjung area of Delhi, early this morning.
The weather office said the city will have a partly cloudy sky with very light rains towards the evening or night, IMD officials said.
As depression over southeast Bay of Bengal likely to intensify as Cyclonic Storm, 'Jawad' and moving North Westerly direction and is likely to cross the coasts of north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha today.
IMD said that the low-pressure area in the south Andaman Sea will intensify into a depression and move towards the coast as a cyclonic storm on December 4.
The IMD added that the overall weather in Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand would undergo many changes, and might experience rainfall in the next few days.
Light to moderate fairly widespread/widespread rainfall is very likely over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, Kerala and Mahe and Lakshadweep areas.
As per IMD, Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram and Ranipet are expected to receive extremely heavy rainfall due to the low pressure around the coast on Thursday.
The death toll in Tamil Nadu due to rain-related incidents on Tuesday jumped to five, said Tamil Nadu Revenue and Disaster Management Minister KKSSR Ramachandran.
The orange alert denoted heavy to very heavy rainfall, whereas the yellow alert denotes moderate to heavy rainfall.
Incessant rains caused widespread destruction in the region and damaged some portions of the national highway as huge boulders fell down the road, local people said.
The orange alert denotes rainfall of 6-20 cm while a yellow alert means 6-11 cm of heavy rains.
An IMD official has said the Northeast monsoon will onset in the peninsular region from October 26.
A 'Yellow alert', predicting isolated heavy rainfall, was issued for Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Thrissur and Kasaragod districts for the day.
On Saturday, the minimum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 20 degrees Celsius, at Safdarjang which is the city's base station. The maximum temperature was recorded at 35.5 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal.
An orange alert, warning of very heavy rainfall was issued for Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode and Wayanad districts.
There are chances to get very heavy rain in some districts up to 20 cm, IMD Director said. He added that there are chances for strong wind and rough sea.
Last month, Delhi registered a total of 413.3 mm of rainfall at the Safdarjung Observatory with the highest 24-hour downpour recorded at 117.7 mm on September 2.
It is a rare instance that one cyclone that formed over the Bay of Bengal has traversed the breadth of the country to reach the west coast and again intensify into a cyclone.
Several parts of south Gujarat and Saurashtra region received heavy rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted more widespread showers in the state in the next two days.
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