The residents of Delhi-NCR on Tuesday woke up to thunderstorms, gusty winds and waterlogged roads as a fresh spell of rains lashed parts of the city late on Monday night and continued till early Tuesday morning. The national capital has been receiving showers for the last few weeks regularly delaying the summer season to an extent.
With the rains comes constant troubles of waterlogged roads in the region. Office-goers had to battle the clogged roads in several parts of the town like the Barapullah flyover and Pankha road flyover.
The city, however, recorded a dip in rising temperatures.
As per IMD, thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain with heavy intensity rain over isolated places would occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR, Gannaur, Meham, Tosham, Rohtak, Bhiwani (Haryana) Baraut, Shikarpur, Khurja (UP) during next 2 hours.
On Monday, sunny skies covered Delhi-NCR with the maximum temperature settling at 32.2 degrees Celsius, reported PTI.
As per the report, the Safdarjung observatory recorded traces of rainfall, while other observatories like Ayanagar, Gurgaon and Jafarpur recorded 1.2 mm, 4.5 mm and 8.5 mm of precipitation respectively between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm.
On Monday, the 24-hour Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded in the moderate category at 179.
On the other hand, amid persistent high inflation and food security woes, farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are worried about their wheat crops due to untimely rain, hailstorm and strong winds. As per a PTI report, more than 5.23 lakh hectare across the three states have been affected by the recent weather, triggering fears of huge yield loss for farmers and harvesting challenges.
Around 5.23 lakh hectare of wheat crop is estimated to have been damaged in the three states due to the inclement weather. The assessment of wheat crop damage in Punjab and Haryana is underway.