Delhi and its nearby regions witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall and thunderstorms today. News agency ANI has posted a few glimpses of the national capital’s current condition. The pictures showed downpour lashing several parts of Delhi, from Connaught Place to the Barapullah flyover. Major places of the city including Yamuna Bazar, Ashram, Anand Vihar, Sarita Vihar, and ITO are waterlogged due to the heavy rain.
As the reports suggest the downpour started around 4 am. However, traffic was normal with no major disruptions due to the waterlogging, so far. Skymet previously predicted that several parts of northern India will witness heavy rainfall throughout the entire first week of August. The heavy rains lashing Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh are set to continue till August 8.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has further predicted the regions set to witness rainfall on Sunday include Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, and Faridabad, among several other nearby areas. “Thunderstorms, with moderate to heavy intensity rains, would occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi-NCR,” read the alert issued by the IMD.
Starting off as an unusually hot month, July ended up with 507 mm of rain twice that of Delhi’s average of 210.6mm for the month, making it the wettest in the past 18 years, another weather extreme that was characteristic of the patterns being observed in the capital since August 2020.
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