Uttar Pradesh rains: The Uttar Pradesh government has declared a holiday for schools on October 10 (Monday) in cities including Lucknow, Noida, Gaziabad, Kanpur, Agra, and others in view of heavy rainfall.
The schools have been shut for class till 12.
District authorities in Lucknow, Noida, Ghaziabad, Agra, Meerut, Aligarh, Mathura, Kanpur, Etah, Mainpuri and Firozabad have ordered closure of schools.
The state has already been witnessing incessant rainfalls in the past few days.
Incessant rains lashed parts of Delhi on Saturday, improving the air quality to the "good" category and bringing down the mercury. The rains also caused a slowdown in traffic and waterlogging in parts of the national capital.
The maximum temperature settled 10 notches below normal at 23.4 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature was recorded at 20.8 degrees Celsius.
The rains over the last few days have significantly contributed to improving the air quality. At 6:40 pm, Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) was registered at 37, which falls in the "good" category.
The Safdarjung observatory, the city's primary weather station, gauged 30.1 mm rainfall in a nine-hour period ending at 5:30 pm. The weather office has forecast more rains for Sunday.
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