Rain lashed the national Capital and Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) on Saturday, giving a respite from the heat as the minimum temperature settled at 26.9 degrees Celsius here, two notches above the season’s average and a marked improvement in the air quality index.
This has led to water logging and traffic congestion was also reported in several parts of the national capital and adjoining NCR. Traffic jams were witnessed outside the Akshardham Temple Metro Station and on various road stretches including Vikas Marg, Wazirabad road, Kashmeri Gate, Naraina road. Many areas including Sangam Vihar faced waterlogging the inconvenienced the locals. The commuters wrote on X about the traffic situation in the national Capital. One of them said that he thought Bangalore’s traffic was bad but today, he realised that Delhi is also giving a tough competition to it.
Others said the traffic was heavy from Surya Nagar to Anand Vihar and Madipur to New Multan Nagar, a complete chaos.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature settled at 33.8 degree Celsius, normal during the season. Delhi recorded 0.6 mm of rain in the last 24 hours which ended at 8:30 AM on Saturday. The relative humidity was recorded at 85 percent at 8:30 AM.
The IMD further stated that light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-40 km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR (Loni Dehat, Bahadurgarh, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Noida, Dadri, Greater Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, Manesar and Ballabhgarh) on Saturday evening. The IMD has predicted generally cloudy skies with light rain for Sunday.