Delhi:
Heavy rains lashed Delhi overnight leading to water logging at several places and throwing traffic out of gear, even as weather department said that monsoon is not likely to abate soon.
Rain gauges recorded 36.4 mm rainfall since 5.30 pm on Saturday, which also led the maximum and minimum temperatures to drop below normal.
The traffic was slow on Sunday morning at the Badarpur MB road, near the Kashmiri Gate Metro Station, Azadpur-Sarai Pipalthala road and Ma Anand Mai Marg.
Traffic snarls were also witnessed on Sunday morning at the New Rohtak road, Ashok Vihar T Point GTK Road, under the Modi flyover, around the Qutub Metro Station, at the Dabri Palam Road and at the Mathura Road-Bharon road link.
Meanwhile, a bus carrying around 30 passengers was stuck under the Badarpur railway line flyover this morning as heavy overnight rains caused water logging, police said.
The maximum temperature for the day was 31.3 degree Celsius which is three degrees below normal, while the minimum was 24.5 degree Celsius, one degree below normal.
In what appears to be further bad news for Delhi's preparations for the Commonwealth Games, the Indian Meteorological Department in its weekly forecast said that heavy rains are likely to continue in northern India, including in Delhi, for some more days.
It said the western end of the monsoon is likely to oscillate north-south of its normal position leading to fairly widespread rainfall with heavy falls over Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi during the half of the week.
The rains are likely to decrease thereafter in these regions, it said.
The withdrawal of the southwest monsoon normally starts from western parts of Rajasthan around 1 September.
"However, in view of north-south oscillation of monsoon trough and continuation easterly flow over northwest India, the withdrawal of monsoon is not expected to commence till middle of September," the weather agency has predicted.