The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday issued an orange alert for Delhi and its adjoining areas, predicting heavy rains along with surface wind of 20 to 40 km/hour.
“Thunderstorm with moderate to heavy intensity rain and winds with speed of 20-40 Km/hour would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of North, West, North-West, South-West Delhi, NCR (Bahadurgarh, Gurugram, Manesar),” . IMD said in its morning bulletin.
It said, “Light to moderate intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of few places of Central, New Delhi, South, South-East, East Delhi, Kandhla, Bagpat, Moradabad, Sambhal, Garhmukteshwar (U.P.) during next 2 hours, during next 2 hours,”.