The Friday also begin with rain for Delhites, as Delhi and its adjoining National Capital Region (NCR) received incessant downpours accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning in the early hours of of the day, bringing much-needed relief from the heat.

Visuals, shared by the news agency ANI, showed parts of Delhi, Noida, and Ghaziabad facing traffic snarls and waterlogged roads due to incessant rainfall.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that light to moderate-intensity rainfall would occur over the national capital and its adjoining NCR region.

"Thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain with heavy intensity rain over a few places and winds with speeds of 20-40 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR during the next 2 hours," it said in a post on X

The weather agency has issued a ‘yellow alert’ till July 3, with forecasts showing moderate to heavy rain to continue for the next seven days in Delhi, predicting generally cloudy skies and varying intensities of rain accompanied by gusty winds.