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Delhi: Heavy Rain Lashes Parts Of National Capital. Traffic Disrupted, Water-Logging In Some Areas

According to weather experts, monsoon will yield good rain in the first 10 days from its onset, covering the rain deficit in Delhi.

New Delhi: Heavy rains lashed parts of Delhi, leading to traffic disruption and water-logging in many areas on Sunday. Several roads were flooded as the downpour brought the mercury down by a few notches in the national capital, according to reports. Monsoon finally rolled into Delhi, yielding the season’s first spell of heavy rain on Thursday, bringing down the maximum temperature in the national capital to 29.4°C, the lowest in four months, as per reports.

Here are some visuals from different parts of the city amid the heavy rainfall:

Several parts of the national capital received moderate to heavy rainfall, with the Safdarjung observatory recording 116.6 mm precipitation between 8.30am and 5.30pm.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday, the southwest monsoon has covered the entire country, six days before the expected date. The southwest monsoon usually arrives in Delhi on June 27 and covers the entire country by July 8. Parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat also received their first seasonal rains on Friday, as per reports.

The weather office had issued an ‘orange alert’ and warned of moderate rainfall in the city on Friday. It also issued a ‘yellow alert’ for light rain over the next six days, as per reports.

According to weather experts, monsoon will yield good rain in the first 10 days from its onset, covering the rain deficit in Delhi.

Notably, the national capital has received just 24.5 mm of rainfall against the normal 66.7 mm since June 1, all of it being recorded during June 16-20, according to reports.

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