Heavy rain, thunderstorms lash parts of national capital and NCR; traffic woes likely
Highlights
- Heavy rain lashes parts of Delhi-NCR
- Met had predicted thunderstorms with moderate intensity rain in Delhi-NCR
- This is the second consecutive day when the Delhi-NCR received rains
Delhi rains: Heavy rains lashed parts of Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) on Friday morning. The early-morning showers brought the temperature down to under 30 degrees Celsius.
Earlier today, Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) New Delhi predicted thunderstorms with moderate intensity rain over and adjoining areas of Delhi and NCR. "Thunderstorms with moderate intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of entire Delhi and NCR ( Loni Dehat, Hindon AF Station, Bahadurgarh, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Chhapraula, Noida, Dadri, Greater Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, Ballabhgarh) during the next 2 hours," RWFC said in a tweet.
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This is the second consecutive day when the Delhi-NCR received rains in a major relief from the heatwave. Earlier, it rained on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, leading to waterlogging in several areas. Indian Meteorological Centre (IMD) predicted thunderstorms accompanied by lightning/gusty wind over Delhi for the next five days beginning June 16. The change in weather is expected to bring the much-needed relief from the scorching heat.
Under the influence of Western Disturbances and lower level easterlies, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with thunderstorm/lightning is very likely over the Western Himalayan region; scattered to fairly widespread rainfall over adjoining plains (Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, Uttar Pradesh) and isolated rainfall over Rajasthan during next 5 days, IMD had said.
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