Delhi Rains: Heavy Downpour Lashes Parts Of National Capital Region, IMD Issues Red Alert

2025-06-17 07:01:21

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Delhi rains: Heavy rainfall lashed parts of the capital on Tuesday evening, including Mahadev Road among others, bringing the much needed relief from the heatwave conditions that Delhi has been experiencing for the last few days.

Videos from news agencies showed heavy downpour as cars sped by, splashing water.

IMD issues red alert for Delhi; forecasts hail, thunderstorm

Hours before the heavy rains, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had issued a red alert for the Delhi, NCR region.

The weather observatory predicted that hail, thunderstorms are likely to hit parts of Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajastha today, June 17.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) this afternoon in its weather alert also stated that light to moderate rainfall at few, many places and heavy Rainfall (7-11 cm) is very likely at isolated places over Bihar, East Rajasthan, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, Madhya Pradesh, North Interior Karnataka, Punjab, Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim and Uttarakhand.

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