IMD issue Yellow alert in Delhi: Several parts of Delhi and the adjoining National Capital Region (NCR) woke up to heavy rains associated with thunderstorms and lightning on Wednesday, bringing relief from the sweltering heat. The minimum temperature on Wednesday morning was 26 degrees Celsius.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has also issued a ‘yellow’ alert for most of Delhi-NCR, indicating heavy to very heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms. “Heavy to very heavy rainfall and thundershowers/lightning at isolated places over West Uttar Pradesh. Heavy rain/thunderstorm/lightning at isolated places over HP, Punjab, Haryana, East Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan,” the IMD said in its bulletin.
During the morning hours, the IMD said that “Thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity of rain will occur over and adjoining isolated places of Delhi, NCR and other places”.
Meanwhile, several visuals shared on Twitter showed heavy rain lashing parts of Delhi-NCR, causing waterlogging in parts of the city.
Water levels of Yamuna, Hindon
The Jamuna river in the state capital is still flowing just a few centimeters below the danger mark at 205.24 meters as recorded at 10 pm on Tuesday. Amid heavy rainfall in the upper basins mainly Himachal and Uttarakhand there have been marginal fluctuations in water levels in recent days.
The river touched an all-time high of 208.66 m on 13 July, inundating low-lying areas in Delhi and causing the evacuation of over 27,000 people. Losses to property, business and earnings ran into the millions, reports said.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the Hindon river a tributary of the Yamuna – started overflowing due to increased water release, submerging a huge yard full of cars of a private company in Greater Noida’s Ecotech 3 area.
