Waterlogging, jams galore as rains lash Delhi again

New Delhi, July 27 (UNI) After the heaviest rainfall of the Monsoon season yesterday, the capital today again experienced moderate rains bringing down mercury further but also causing waterlogging and traffic snags at many places.

The rains, which began at around 0900 hours this morning, brought down the minimum temperature to 24.3 degrees Celsius, from 27.2 degrees, yesterday. The maximum also dropped slightly to 28.0 degree, from 28.4 Degrees C yesterday.

Coming in the wake of yesterday's day-long heavy downpour, which saw the capital recieve 104 mm of rainfall, the heaviest in a single day since the South West Monsoon hit the capital in the second week of July, the rainfall led to waterlogging and traffic jams in many areas.

Sources in the MCD control room monitoring problems of waterlogging in Delhi said 87 complaints of waterlogging were recieved from various parts of Delhi during the day. A majority of these complaints came from the Old Delhi areas like Chandni Chowk and Kashmere Gate. Besides a large number of cases of waterlogging were also reported from Rohini zone.

Weatherman said the capital had recieved 8 mm of rainfall till 1430 Hours.

With today's rainfall, the capital has experienced more than 150 mm rainfall since Tuesday morning.

Tomorrow could bring more heavy rains to the capital with the weatherman forecasting a generally cloudy sky with a few more spells of rain and thundershowers with one or two heavy spells in some areas during the next 24 hours.

In fact the coming days could witness an increase in rainfall activity in North West India with the met office forecasting that the ongoing enhanced rainfall activity over Western Himalayan region and plains of northwest India was likely to continue for another two days.

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