On Tuesday morning, monsoon has arrived in Delhi with heavy rainfall and thunderstorms in some areas. The city's adjoining areas like Gurgaon and Faridabad have also received heavy rainfall.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted moderate rain over Delhi this morning. "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," the IMD tweeted.
The IMD's last prediction was monsoon's arrival on last Saturday as Delhi and adjoining areas reeled under intense heat for weeks. Finally, the IMD announced the arrival of monsoon today after rain hit the capital. Twitter was flooded with photos and videos of the rain as people in Delhi rejoiced at the arrival of monsoon.
Madhavan Rajeevan, Secretary at the Ministry of Earth Sciences tweeted that IMD was waiting for the rain to declare the monsoon onset. "Finally Monsoon Rains over Delhi! Even though monsoon conditions were prevailing last 2-3 days, India Met department was waiting for these rains to declare monsoon onset. Last 2 days it rained everywhere surrounding Delhi, except Delhi," he tweeted.