The India Meteorological Department has warned of heavy rain accompanied by strong winds and thunderstorms across Delhi-NCR, including Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad, as the monsoon reaches its seasonal peak.
The alert cautions that waterlogging is likely in low-lying areas of the capital region as the active weather system moves through.
Such conditions, thunderstorms combined with gusty winds, have repeatedly triggered flight delays and airline passenger advisories at Indira Gandhi International Airport during earlier spells of this year’s monsoon.
The IMD also flagged wider impact across the country, with Kerala’s Wayanad hills facing landslide and flood risk from continuous heavy rain, and coastal cities including Kochi, Bengaluru and Mangalore expected to see winds of around 50 km/h.
Heavy rainfall alerts were additionally issued for parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha.
Passengers travelling through Delhi are advised to check flight status directly with their airline and allow extra time for airport travel while the thunderstorm warning remains active.
IGI Airport, one of India’s busiest, has repeatedly seen carriers such as IndiGo, Air India and SpiceJet issue passenger advisories during comparable spells of monsoon thunderstorms and high winds earlier this season.
In Kerala, the IMD flagged landslide and flood risks for the Wayanad hills from continuous heavy rain, while Kochi, Bengaluru and Mangalore face coastal winds of around 50 km/h.
Uttar Pradesh cities including Lucknow, Kanpur and Gorakhpur, along with Bihar’s Patna, Gaya and Muzaffarpur, Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur, and West Bengal’s Kolkata and Siliguri were also placed under heavy rainfall alerts.
Airlines typically advise passengers to check flight status directly through official apps or websites and to allow extra travel time to the airport during active thunderstorm warnings, given the potential for air traffic control-driven delays.
The southwest monsoon typically remains active over North India through August and into early September, meaning further rounds of thunderstorm and heavy-rain alerts affecting Delhi-NCR flight operations remain likely in the coming weeks.
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