Heavy rain lashes Delhi-NCR; parts of Capital witness traffic snarls, waterlogging

From 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm, the Safdarjung base station logged 2.8 mm rainfall. SPS Mayur Vihar Automatic Weather Station (AWS) logged 37.5 mm of rainfall during this period. Other stations including Lodhi Road, Ridge, Delhi University, Pusa, Najafgarh and Pitampura recorded 7.4 mm, 7.7 mm, 8 mm, 4.5 mm, 1.5 mm and 3.5 mm of rainfall, respectively. Meanwhile, Narela AWS, Ayanagar AWS, and Palam stations did not report any rainfall.

The IMD has issued a yellow alert (be aware) for the weekend.

On Saturday, the IMD has forecast a generally cloudy sky with light to moderate rainfall.

For two days after Sunday, there is no warning for rainfall in the city while for Wednesday and Thursday, it is on yellow alert.

The Delhi Traffic Police issued a traffic advisory due to waterlogging at Anand Parbat besides a traffic alert on Najafgarh Phirni Road due to waterlogging at Dhansa Stand and Bahadurgarh Stand.

As per the IMD’s daily bulletin, a cyclonic circulation has been observed in North East Rajasthan and neighbourhood areas extending up to middle tropospheric levels tilting southwestwards with height. Besides, a cyclonic circulation lies over South East Uttar Pradesh and its neighbourhood extending up to lower tropospheric levels, it further stated.
The monsoon trough is active and near its normal position at mean sea level, said the IMD in a press release on Friday.

At 6.05 pm, the IMD alerted, “Light to moderate rainfall will continue to occur at many places of Delhi (Kashmiri Gate, Seelampur, Shahdara, Rajouri Garden, Patel Nagar, Red Fort, Preet Vihar, Buddha Jayanti Park, President House, Rajeev Chowk, ITO, Jafarpur, Najafgarh, Dwarka, Delhi Cantt, India Gate, Akshardham, Palam, Safdarjung, Lodhi Road, IGI Airport), NCR (Hindon AF Station, Bahadurgarh, Ghaziabad, Chhapraula, Noida, Greater Noida), Rohtak, Jhajjar (Haryana), Sikandrabad (UP) during the next two hours.”

The maximum temperature recorded at Safdarjung station, which is representative of Delhi, was 34.8 degrees Celsius on Friday and the minimum temperature was 26.6 degrees Celsius, both near to normal. The relative humidity oscillated between 85 and 100.

The AQI in the city on Friday was 60, continuing its ‘satisfactory’ run, a day after Delhi recorded the lowest-ever daily average AQI (53) on any day from January 1 to August 8 for the period 2018 to 2024 (barring Covid-affected 2020).