Rain, thunderstorm lash Delhi-NCR once more; disrupt highway, air site visitors | Newest Information Delhi

One other spell of rain and thundershowers lashed the nationwide capital on Monday night bringing extra aid from the scorching warmth in Delhi and its neighbouring areas. Nonetheless, the heavy rains for the second consecutive day have led to site visitors snarls and flight cancellations.

Flights from airways together with IndiGo, Vistara, SpiceJet and Air India have been delayed, diverted and even cancelled as a consequence of turbulent climate.

The India Meteorological Division (IMD) had in a tweet stated rainfall, accompanied with robust gusty winds as much as 50-60 kilometres per hour, are very prone to happen over Delhi and the nationwide capital area throughout the evening.

The climate division additionally predicted comparable climate situations over Punjab, Haryana, north Rajasthan and the western area of Uttar Pradesh throughout the subsequent 8 to 10 hours. The MeT division stated {that a} hail storm could be very prone to happen in these areas.

The northwestern components of the nation, together with the capital metropolis, loved some respite from the extended heatwave because the area acquired heavy rainfall beneath the affect of the season’s first reasonable depth thunderstorm.

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The morning temperature in Delhi plunged 11 notches from 29 levels Celsius to 18 levels Celsius. Nonetheless, it additionally affected highway and air site visitors throughout the morning rush hours, moreover bringing down homes and bushes, leaving at the very least eight folks injured.

A number of flights and trains have been cancelled because of the heavy rainfall and thunderstorms. Waterlogging and energy cuts have been additionally reported from a number of areas, officers stated.

The IMD had stated that comparable climate situations will prevail over the subsequent few days and “no heatwave situation is prone to develop in any a part of the nation throughout the subsequent 5 days”. The one exception, it stated, was West Rajasthan, the place remoted heatwave situations are probably on Could 26 and 27.

The summer time months of March, April, Could often witness thunderstorms for 12 to 14 days, however this season has seen solely 4 to 5 thunderstorms and that too, largely dry.