The India Meteorological Department (IMD) declared the start of the southwest monsoon in Delhi and other parts of North India on Friday, just after the capital got heavy rainfall and the country’s scorching temperatures receded.
According to the weather department, the southwest monsoon has already reached parts of the North Arabian Sea, Gujarat, some more parts of Rajasthan, the majority of Madhya Pradesh, some more parts of West Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, some parts of East Uttar Pradesh, most of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, and some parts of Punjab.
“Southwest Monsoon further advanced into some more parts of West Rajasthan, remaining parts of East Rajasthan, some parts of Haryana, entire Delhi, some more parts of West Uttar Pradesh, remaining parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, and some more parts of East Uttar Pradesh,” the IMD reported.
Meanwhile, throughout the span of the next five days, the IMD has also forecast fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall along with thunderstorms and lightning over northwest and east India. Heavily rainy conditions earlier in the day resulted in major waterlogging throughout Delhi and sections of the National Capital Region.
The famous Minto Bridge in the Capital, which is known for becoming a bus trap in the event of severe rain, was also flooded. This occurred nearly a year after the Public Works Department (PWD) removed it from their list of locations in the nation’s capital that were prone to flooding.
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