Heavy rain lashes parts of Delhi-ncr, causes snarls
NEW DELHI: Heavy rain lashed parts of Delhi and NCR towns on Saturday causing water logging in some parts of the Capital. The India Meteorological Department (IMD), has however, forecasted that the intensity of rainfall will decrease from Sunday onwards.
On Saturday, water logging was reported from several parts of the national capital, including Aya Nagar, Bindapur, Uttam Nagar, Wazirpur, Adarsh Nagar, Ghazipur, Jahangirpuri and Shalimar Bagh, among others places. The waterlogging triggered traffic snarls on many roads prompting the Delhi Traffic Police to issue traffic advisories on road stretches to avoid.
“Heavy rain was recorded from some parts of Delhi and NCR on Saturday. The intensity of the rain is, however, likely to decrease from Sunday,” BP Yadav, deputy director general of IMD, said.
While Safdarjung, which is taken to be a representative of Delhi’s weather, received only 5mm of rain till 5:30pm, the heaviest rainfall i n Delhi was recorded in Ridge area which was around 20mm.
Palam and Ayanagar received 3.8 and 7.4 mm of rain. Reports of heavy downpour also came in from areas like Jafarpur, Narela and Najafgarh.
NCR towns such as Gurgaon recorded 34mm of rain. Even though rainfall data from areas like Noida and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh were not available, local residents said that heavy rain lashed the districts of east UP including, Ghaziabad and Noida.
“I was about to go out when it started raining heavily around noon. The rainfall continued for more than an hour and there was water logging,” said Priyanka Goswami, a resident of Vaishali.
Meteorologists said that while easterly winds are continuously bringing loads of moisture, a cyclonic circulation over south Uttar Pradesh and northwest Madhya Pradesh triggered Saturday’s rain. The monsoon trough, which triggers rain wherever it goes, is also located close to Delhi.