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Record Rain In Delhi Floods Airport, Orange Alert Issued

This is the first time since 2010 that monsoon rainfall in Delhi breached the 1,000 mm mark, the highest rainfall in the national capital in 11 years.

New Delhi: Parts of the Indira Gandhi Airport (IGI) airport in New Delhi have been waterlogged following record rain in the national capital. The weather office has issued an ’orange alert’ for today as the monsoon rainfall in Delhi breached the 1,000 mm mark on Friday, the highest rainfall in the national capital in 11 years.

Visuals shared by news agency ANI showed aircraft on the ground at the airport which is partially flooded. The bad weather has affected flight operations at the airport

Both IndiGo, SpiceJet confirmed on Twitter that all departures/arrivals and their consequential flights may get affected as a result of the rainfall.

Earlier the national capital received moderate to heavy rainfall today, bringing slight respite from the heat in the city. The continuous rain caused waterlogging in several parts of Delhi.

The India Meteorological Department or IMD has predicted thunderstorms with heavy to very heavy intensity rain in Delhi and its adjoining areas.

In the latest update at 10:30 am IMD said, "Thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of few places of Delhi(Dera mandi, IGI airport  ), NCR ( Faridabad, Ballabhgarh, Gurugram) Rohtak and  Gohana".

Earlier the national capital received moderate to heavy rainfall today, bringing slight respite from the heat in the city. The continuous rain caused waterlogging in several parts of Delhi.

This is the first time since 2010 that monsoon rainfall in Delhi breached the 1,000 mm mark, the highest rainfall in the national capital in 11 years.