Downpour in north, IMD warns of heavy rain for next 5 days

For the next seven days, Delhi will experience moderate to heavy rain, and an ‘orange alert’ has been issued for the next three days, the IMD said.

In Himachal Pradesh, an ‘orange’ alert was issued for heavy downpour and thunderstorms in the state from June 30 to July 2, the meteorological centre here said.

Three roads in Kangra, Kullu and Solan districts were closed for traffic as rain lashed parts of the state on Saturday.

In Uttarakhand, heavy rain lashed Haridwar this afternoon and several cars were washed away after flooding in the Sukhi river here. Rainwater gushed into homes and left major roads in the pilgrimage town waterlogged.As the rainfed Sukhi river is generally dry, people park their cars on the dry riverbed. When the river got flooded all of a sudden, the cars got swept away in the water.The weather office has warned of heavy rainfall in several parts of Rajasthan during the next few days even as monsoon rain continues unabated in the state.

Light to moderate rainfall was recorded in some places while a few others recorded heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours, it said.

According to the IMD, isolated heavy rainfall is expected in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan from June 29 to July 3.

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