Delhi Airport Flooded After Record Rain, City On Orange Alert

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New Delhi: Parts of the Gandhi Airport (IGI) airport in New Delhi are waterlogged following record rain within the capital . An ‘orange alert’ has been issued because the monsoon rainfall in Delhi breached the 1,000 mm mark on Friday, the very best annual rainfall in 46 years.
Visuals shared by press agency ANI showed aircraft on the bottom at the airport which is partially flooded. The inclemency has affected flight operations at the airport, with airlines like IndiGo, SpiceJet requesting passengers to trace their flight status before leaving for the airport.

The “sudden heavy rain” led to waterlogging at the forecourt, the Delhi International Airport (DIAL) said on Twitter, adding that the difficulty “has been resolved”.

“Our team was immediately aligned to seem into it and therefore the issue has been resolved,” it tweeted.

As many as five flights – four Delhi-bound domestic flights and one flight – were diverted to neighbouring cities thanks to heavy rainfall on Saturday, press agency ANI reported quoting airport officials. They also said that three IndiGo flights which were scheduled to depart from Delhi were cancelled thanks to inclemency .

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 12:10 pm IMD said, “Thunderstorm with heavy to very heavy intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of few places of Delhi (Akshardham, Shahadra, Preet Vihar), NCR (Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Loni Dehat, Hindon AF, Indirapuram, Chapraula)”.

Earlier the capital received moderate to heavy rainfall today, bringing slight respite from the warmth within the city. the continual rain caused waterlogging in several parts of Delhi.

This is the primary time since 1975 that monsoon rainfall in Delhi breached the 1,000 mm mark.

“The Safdarjung Observatory, which is taken into account the official marker for the town , had gauged 1,150 mm of rainfall within the 1975 monsoon season. This year, the precipitation has already hit the 1,100-mm mark and therefore the season has not ended yet,” an IMD official was quoted as saying by press agency PTI.

Normally, Delhi records 648.9 mm of rainfall during the monsoon season, consistent with the IMD.