Heavy rain lashes Noida, flooding Sector 45 and uprooting Sector 6 tree
Heavy overnight rain lashed Noida on Thursday morning, triggering an orange alert, causing severe waterlogging outside the Amrapali Sapphire residential complex in Sector 45, and bringing down a tree onto a vehicle in Sector 6. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued the alert as part of a wider weather warning across the National Capital Region (NCR) following hours of incessant rainfall.
The downpour caused significant disruptions for commuters as traffic slowed to a crawl on the Delhi-Noida Expressway. The heavy rainfall led to waterlogging in multiple areas, stalling vehicles on local roads and disrupting daily schedules for office-goers.
According to rainfall data, the Tanda weather station in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Noida, recorded 62 mm of rain. Meanwhile, neighboring areas saw even higher figures, with Ghaziabad recording 164 mm in Kamala Mehru Nagar and 134 mm in Hindon, while Mayur Vihar in Delhi recorded 103 mm.
The severe weather was accompanied by strong winds that uprooted trees across the region. In Noida's Sector 6, a tree fell directly onto a vehicle. Similar incidents were reported in neighboring Delhi, where trees fell on Raja Dhir Singh Marg in East of Kailash and outside the National Heart Institute.
The rainfall brought a drop in temperatures across the NCR, with the minimum temperature falling to 24.3 degrees Celsius, which is 3.6 degrees below normal.
In neighboring Gurugram, officials reported that the drainage system had virtually collapsed after recording 115 mm of rainfall in less than 48 hours, causing massive jams in the Cyber City business district. Traffic disruptions across the region prompted several private companies to issue work-from-home advisories.
Weather experts attributed the heavy rainfall over the past two days to the seasonal monsoon trough shifting northwards from central India toward the Himalayan foothills. Experts warned that heavy rain is likely to continue in the region until the system moves further north.
