11 Flights To Delhi Airport Diverted As Heavy Rains Lash National Capital
The flights were rerouted to Lucknow and Jaipur.
An official said that at least 10 flights were diverted on Monday owing to severe weather at the Delhi airport, news agency PTI reported.
The flights were rerouted to Lucknow and Jaipur.
According to an airport spokesman, between 5 and 5.30 pm, eight planes were diverted to Jaipur and three to Lucknow due to inclement weather.
Delhi Weather Update
On Monday, heavy rain and high winds pummelling parts of Delhi.
Earlier in the day, beautiful weather prevailed in Delhi, with the highest temperature reaching 27.1 degrees Celsius, three degrees lower than the season's average.
The minimum temperature was 17.4 degrees Celsius, which is somewhat higher than average. Humidity levels varied from 48 to 94 percent.
The 24-hour Air Quality Index (AQI) for Delhi was 154 at 4 pm, falling into the "moderate" category.
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Good air quality is defined as having an AQI of 0 to 50, tolerable air quality as 51 to 100, moderate air quality as 101 to 200, poor air quality as 201 to 300, extremely bad air quality as 301 to 400, and severe air quality as 401 to 500.
SAFAR, the government's air quality forecasting organisation, predicts that moderate surface breezes would likely keep dispersion and air quality stable. "Overall air quality is likely to be within 'moderate' or 'upper end of satisfactory' for the next three days due to moderate dispersion by surface wind speed as well as wash out by likely rain spells," it said.
Earlier on Sunday, cloudy weather continued for a second day in the national capital and adjoining areas and the weather department had predicted light intensity rain/drizzle in Delhi and the National Capital Region whereas thunderstorm with light-intensity rain had been forecast over and adjoining areas of Agra in Uttar Pradesh.
“Light intensity rain/drizzle would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi, New Delhi, South-West Delhi (Nazafgarh, Dwarka, Palam, IGI Airport), NCR ( Gurugram, Manesar) Hansi, Meham, Rohtak, Sohana (Haryana) Nandgaon, Barsana. Thunderstorms with light-intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of Agra (U.P.) during the next 2 hours,” said the MeT department in a statement.
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