IMD Records a Dry 24 Hours in Varanasi: 34.0°C High, No Rain, No Warning

The India Meteorological Departments Varanasi city sheet for station 42479, dated Sunday, 13 September 2026, logged a dry 24 hours: rainfall 0.0 mm at 08:30 IST, a maximum of 34.0 degrees Celsius (0.7 above normal) at 17:30, and a minimum of 24.3 degrees Celsius (1.1 below normal) at 08:30. Relative humidity read 78 percent at 17:30 and 76 percent at 08:30. Sunrise was 05:44; sunset 18:05. No weather warning was in force through the published week.

This file is distinct from the 12 September sheet that carried 15 mm at the airport and an 18.8 mm Rajghat stamp elsewhere on the city rain ledger. Sundays official city page prints nil rain. Mixing those figures invents a shower that the 13 September sheet does not show. The locked realised numbers are 34.0 / 24.3 / 0.0 mm.

The seven-day outlook on the same page keeps a partly cloudy line with one or two rain or thunder spells for 13–16 September, still with no warning. 17–18 September stays partly cloudy, no warning. 19 September lists rain or thunder spells, again with no warning. Forecast temperature bands on the sheet run roughly 35/25 for 13 September, 34/25–26 for 14–16 September, 35/26 for 17–18 September, and 34/26 for 19 September.

A dry stamp after a wetter midweek reading does not rewrite the monsoon. It does reset the near-term street read: lanes that were wet from earlier rain can dry under a 34-degree afternoon even while humidity holds in the mid-to-high seventies. Morning air at 76 percent RH still feels monsoon-heavy; the afternoon maximum sitting only 0.7 above normal keeps the heat inside a familiar September band rather than a spike story.

City weather copy lives on what the sheet prints. Nil rain at 08:30 is not a licence to invent local afternoon showers as fact against that official zero. If a later bulletin revises the realised total, that revision will be a new stamp. Until then, Sunday’s city page is the source of record — and the source URL for this file is the IMD city weather page for station 42479.

No warning across the seven-day table matters for outdoor schedules, school logistics and ghat-side work that still answers to thunder cells even when the alert colour is blank. Partly cloudy with possible rain or thunder spells is a planning line, not a guarantee of dry stone. The absence of a warning is the absence of a warning; it is not a promise that every afternoon will stay clear.

Pairing a 24.3 minimum (1.1 below normal) with sticky humidity explains why early hours can still feel cool and damp after a rainless night. The 34.0 maximum is the day’s heat ceiling on the sheet. Together they sketch a late-monsoon Sunday that was dry on the gauge and mild on the thermometer, with a week ahead that still allows thunder without elevating a warning.

For residents, the practical read is short: zero millimetres banked in the 24 hours to 08:30, a 34.0 high, a 24.3 low, humidity in the mid-to-high seventies, sunrise 05:44, sunset 18:05, and no warning on the seven-day table. IMD refreshes the city page daily. Until a later bulletin revises the numbers, Varanasi’s locked weather stamp for 13 September is the dry sheet above.