Delhiand its adjoining areas and parts of Haryana, UP and Rajasthan will continue toreceive moderate to heavy rain along with thunderstorms for the next few hours,the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday.
"Thunderstormwith light to moderate intensity rain will continue to occur over most parts ofDelhi, Gurugram, Farukhnagar, Sohna, Bhiwadi, Rewari, Bawal, Nuh, Tijara,Hodal, Palwal, Aurangabad, Hodal, Faridabad, Ballabhgarh (all in Haryana),Alwar, Viratnagar, Kotputli (all in Rajasthan), Khataoli, Dadri, Noida,Indirapuram, Chapraula, Pilakhua, Ghaziabad, Loni-Dehat, Bagpath, Khekra,Modinagar, Baraut, Meerut, Hapur, Kandhla, Gurmukhteshwar, Hindon-AF station,Muzaffarnagar, Jahangirabad, Bijnor, Siyana, Atrauli, Jalesar Amroha, Moradabad(all in UP) during the next two hours," the Met Department said.
Moderateto heavy rain continued to lash the national capital and nearby areas sinceSunday morning for the second consecutive day. The capital city had receivedrain with thunderstorms and lightning on Saturday as well.
TheIMD had predicted on Friday that parts of north-west and adjoining centralIndia will experience a wet spell which will lead to a light to moderate fairlywidespread rain and snow over western Himalayan region between January 4 and 6.
Meanwhile,the minimum temperature in Delhi is likely to rise to 9 degrees Celsius in thenext two to three days under the influence of the Western Disturbance, the IMDpredicted on Sunday.
However,the weatherman also predicted that several parts of Delhi, Punjab and UttarPradesh would experience cold conditions between January 3 and 4.
OnFriday, the mercury plummeted to 1.1 degrees Celsius, the lowest in 15 yearsfor January, and "very dense" fog lowered visibility to"zero".