Monsoon Arrival In National Capital

The national capital and adjoining areas got heavy rain along with thunderstorms

Monsoon has finally arrived in the National Capital as heavy rain along with strong winds hit the city.The rain also led to massive traffic jams on roads as the roads became water logged. The city's adjoining areas including Gurgaon, Noida and Faridabad have also received heavy rainfall.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted that, "Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and winds with speed of 20-40 km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of most places of Delhi, NCR (Bahadurgarh, Gurugram, Faridabad, Loni Dehat, Noida) Gohana, Sonipat, Rohtak (Haryana) Khekra (UP) during next 2 hours," as per the IMD's tweet.

The rainfall will provide much needed respite from the heat and brought in a wave of fresh whether . Social media was flooded with photos and videos of the rain as people on social media and in Delhi rejoiced at the arrival of monsoon. Mahesh Palawat shared a post, stating that "Finally Monsoon Rains over Delhi! Even though monsoon conditions were prevailing the last 2-3 days, the India Met department was waiting for these rains to declare monsoon onset. Last 2 days it rained everywhere surrounding Delhi, except Delhi,"  on twitter.