The much-awaited monsoon are finally here in Delhi!

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) also declared on Friday the onset of the Southwest monsoon in Delhi and other parts of North India, soon after the Capital received heavy rainfall and as the heatwave conditions abated across the country.

According to the weather department, the southwest monsoon has already advanced into parts of the North Arabian Sea, Gujarat, some more parts of Rajasthan, most parts of Madhya Pradesh; some more parts of West Uttar Pradesh; Bihar, some parts of East Uttar Pradesh; most parts of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, and some parts of Punjab.

It added that conditions are likely to become favourable for the further advance of the southwest monsoon into some more parts of Rajasthan, the remaining parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, some more parts of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chandigarh, some parts of Haryana, some more parts of Punjab, the remaining parts of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu during the next two to three days.

Meanwhile, the IMD has also predicted fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorms and lightning over northwest and east India during the next five days.