Rain lashes parts of Delhi, brings slight relief from heat

NEW DELHI: Parts of the national capital received light intensity rainfall early on Wednesday morning, bringing a little respite from the scorching heat.

Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) predicted a thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds over and adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi.

"Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-40 km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi ( Bawana, Kanjhawala, Rohini, Mundaka, Pashchim Vihar, Jafarpur, Nazafgarh, Dwarka, Palam IGI Airport), NCR ( Bahadurgarh)," tweeted RWFC on Wednesday.
RWFC provides weather forecasts for North West India along with Delhi-NCR regions.
"Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of , Jhajjar, Farukhnagar (Haryana) Muzaffarnagar, Khatauli, Sakoti Tanda, Daurala, Meerut, Modinagar, Pilakhua, Hapur (U.P.) Kotputli, Viratnagar," it read.
According to RWFC, light to moderate intensity intermittent rain would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places in Delhi-NCR, Sohana, Palwal, Aurangabad,
"Light to moderate intensity intermittent rain would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi ( Deramandi), NCR ( Ghaziabad, Chhapraula, Dadri, Greater Noida, Gurugram, Manesar) Sohana, Palwal, Aurangabad, Hodal (Haryana) Kithor, Garhmukteshwar, Gulaoti, Sikandrabad, Jattari (UP) during next 2 hours," it tweeted.

Earlier on June 19, Delhi received light rains while the IMD predicted mostly cloudy skies.