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Photos: Monsoon catches up with Delhi NCR
The season’s heaviest rain in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) inundated key road stretches and low-lying areas, flooded residential colonies, and led to long traffic jams. Light to moderate showers a day later on July 27, further helped bring down the daytime temperature by nearly seven degrees, with the weather department predicting continuing showers that are likely to intensify over the weekend.
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A view of the Parliament and surrounding areas during overcast weather in New Delhi on July 28. After weeks of waiting for a delayed monsoon, Delhi has already broken the record for its wettest July since 2003, recording 381mm rainfall till July 27.(Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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Dark clouds over India Gate and the Vijay Chowk area on a rainy day in New Delhi on July 28. Light to moderate showers continued through July 28, a day after the national capital recorded 100mm rainfall in just three hours during the morning on July 27 – nearly half the July average of 210.6mm, HT reported.(PTI)
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Security personal wearing raincoats while on guard amid rain at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on July 28. Having already logged the highest precipitation for the month in 18 years, Kuldeep Srivastava, head of India Meteorological Department’s regional weather forecasting centre, suggests another spell of moderate rainfall is likely to hit the city between July 30 and 31.(ANI)
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Slow moving traffic due to the rain, near Moti Bagh in New Delhi on July 28. Traffic jams were recorded on both days across several parts of the city and the Delhi traffic police noted nearly 50 stretches being inundate, with pumps used to flush out excess water.(Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)
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Commuters wade through the waterlogged Delhi- Gurugram Expressway and service road after heavy rains at Narsinghpur, in Gurugram on July 28. The lanes of the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway were flooded, yet again, on a day that also marked the fifth anniversary of the infamous “Gurujam” incident of 2016 when commuters were stuck on the expressway for nearly two days due to rains.(PTI)
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A woman wades through heavy waterlogging caused due to water from the drains on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway spilling over into Mehrauli village, in Ghaziabad on July 28.(Sakib Ali / HT Photo)
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YSR Congress party leader Geetha Viswanath (C) and others taking cover from the rain while at the Parliament for the Monsoon Session, in New Delhi on July 28.(Arun Sharma / PTI)
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Commuters pass by a tree that was uprooted after heavy rain, at Ramakrishna Ashram Marg in New Delhi on July 28. Along with incidents of trees being uprooted, instances of vehicle breakdowns and road cave-ins were also reported from some areas.(Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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Police personnel stand guard during a "Kisan Sansad" protest against three farm reform laws, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on July 28. Mahesh Palawat, vice-president (meteorology and climate change) at Skymet Weather, a private weather forecaster, told HT that despite a late start to monsoon, Delhi has managed to exceed the rainfall usually seen in July.(Vijay Verma / PTI)
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