Delhi crosses annual rain mark, Gurugram flooded again amid downpour
Hindustan TimesDelhi crossed its annual rainfall quota on Saturday, with nearly four-and-a-half months of the year still to go, after a strong spell of showers across the city and the National Capital Region flooded streets and set off traffic mayhem, especially in Gurugram. Read here: Waterlogging in Delhi, Gurugram after heavy morning rain; traffic disrupted The Safdarjung station, representative of the city’s weather, has received 775.8mm rain so far this year, surpassing the annual average of 774.4mm, with 12 days remaining in August — the city’s wettest month — and more than a third of the year still to come, according to data from the India Meteorological Department. Once again, though, Gurugram bore the brunt of the rain, with swathes of Millennium City going under on Saturday, leaving commuters on the road for several hours amid bumper-to-bumper queues as traffic came to a standstill. Officials said they received complaints of flooding from the Narsinghpur stretch of the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, areas near Iffco Chowk Metro station, as well as neighbourhoods in and around Hero Honda Chowk, Rajiv Chowk, Vatika Chowk, Iffco Chowk, Kherki Daula, Golf Course Extension Road, Southern Peripheral Road, Udyog Vihar, Sohna Road, Basai, Khandsa Road and Pataudi Road.