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Heavy rains lashed the capital Delhi for the second consecutive day on Friday, inflicting water-logging on roads and disrupting visitors at many locations. The Meteorological Department has additionally issued a yellow alert for Saturday. According to the Meteorological Department, gentle rain might happen in most areas of Delhi and there’s a risk of heavy rain at some locations.
Due to heavy rains, falling of bushes disrupted visitors at locations and other people had to face difficulties in motion. The Delhi Traffic Police issued an alert calling on commuters to plan their journey conserving in thoughts the rains.
Police tweeted, “Shantivan’s Hanuman Setu to Hanuman Mandir Carriageway, Libaspur Underpass, Maharani Bagh, Taimur Nagar Mor, CDR Chowk, Mehrauli to Gurugram, Andheria More in direction of Vasant Kunj, below Nizamuddin Bridge, at Singhu Border Near the petrol pump, water logging has been noticed from MB Road to Sainik Farms Carriageway.
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Police suggested individuals to keep away from these routes. The visitors police stated they’d acquired 19 jam-related calls. Apart from this, 22 calls had been acquired relating to water logging and 11 informing about incidents of felling of bushes.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi acquired 12 complaints of water logging and 16 complaints associated to felling of bushes. According to officers, visitors calls had been acquired from areas like Sonia Vihar, Pushta Road, Bijwasan Flyover, Uttam Nagar Signal, close to Vasant Kunj Church and Vasant Kunj Fortis Hospital, Rajdhani Park to Nangloi, Pitampura, Model Town Extension and many others.
Some commuters shared the standing of the visitors jam drawback on social media. A passenger stated that there’s heavy visitors jam in Nangloi. At the identical time, one other requested the police to management the heavy visitors from Batla House to Okhla. Police additionally acquired complaints of visitors jams from Mahipalpur and Preet Vihar.
The quantity of rain that Delhi acquired in simply the final 24 hours until 8.30 am on Friday was greater than half of the common rainfall in the month of September.
The Safdarjung observatory had recorded 58.5 mm of rain from September 1 to September 22 (Thursday morning), in opposition to the conventional 108.5 mm. Safdarjung Observatory is the foremost climate station of Delhi. 72 mm of rain was recorded in the final 24 hours until 8.30 am on Friday.
From September 1 to September 23, Delhi acquired 130.5 mm of rain. Normally Delhi receives 125.5 mm of rain in September.
