New Delhi: The national capital and adjoining areas witnessed light to moderate rain on Wednesday that began in the morning and has not stopped yet. Drizzling is seen across Delhi-NCR with many areas reporting waterlogging and a pain that has become the destiny of Delhi — traffic jam.
It rains and roads get packed with vehicles coming from all the possible directions with signals operating perfectly fine and yet it takes hours before commuters can make it to the place they planned to go. The year has been one of the wettest for the capital and with three-and-a-half months more to go, the city is likely to make some fresh records.
Waterlogging was reported in several areas in the city including the famous ITO junction amid a yellow alert from the India Meteorology Department (IMD). The alert was issued yesterday by the officials of the MeT department wherein it was informed that today (Wednesday), light to moderate rainfall would lash Delhi.
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A change in the temperature has also been experienced bringing respite from two days of humidity to the residents. Vehicular movements at several places were reported to be slow and if the showers continue, some junctions may report heavy traffic chaos in a few hours.
Why Is It Raining So Much In Delhi?
Delhi has already crossed 1000 mm of rainfall this year and the year is yet to end. The weather scientist earlier said that there is an active western disturbance which is in turn bringing so much rain to the national capital.
A low-pressure system over southwestern Uttar Pradesh is causing heavy rainfall in the adjoining areas. This system, moving at 13 km/h, reached southwestern Uttar Pradesh by Thursday afternoon last week, impacting an area of 300 kilometres. As it advances towards Uttarakhand, it is expected to bring moderate to heavy rainfall to areas including Agra, Firozabad, Aligarh, and Badaun, as mentioned in an Economic Times report.
"The depression is likely to weaken gradually while moving north. Consequently, the rain will also start decreasing. We are expecting more or less stable weather after this phase, and the frequency of rains will be much less by then," Mahesh Palawat from Skymet told the news outlet.