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Rain floods Delhi roads, triggers traffic snarls on 5 August
A PTI wire report carried by ABP Live recorded waterlogging and lengthy traffic jams across Delhi on 5 August 2026 after heavy rain. Vehicles crawled through the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, ITO, Mathura Road,…
A PTI wire report carried by ABP Live recorded waterlogging and lengthy traffic jams across Delhi on 5 August 2026 after heavy rain. Vehicles crawled through the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, ITO, Mathura Road, Lodhi Road and stretches of Lutyens' Delhi, while GT Road, Loni Road, Jhilmil, GTB Enclave and Dilshad Garden in east Delhi also saw water pooling. Shani Bazaar Road and Dakshin Puri in Sangam Vihar stayed flooded. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi logged rainwater inside Safdarjung Hospital's gallery, three trees felled between 6 am and 2 pm, and ten separate waterlogging complaints between 2 pm and 6 pm. Rain gauges at Safdarjung and Lodhi Road measured 15.6 mm and 38.7 mm respectively between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm. The India Meteorological Department put out a yellow alert, and Skymet Weather's Mahesh Palawat forecast two to three further days of moderate rain from a run of weather systems moving through the region.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The figures in this PTI report come from two separate systems, the MCD's complaint logs and the IMD's rain gauges, rather than from any outlet's own reporting judgement. Ten waterlogging complaints logged between 2 pm and 6 pm and the 38.7 mm recorded at Lodhi Road are the kind of specific counts that can be checked against those agencies' own records, unlike a general claim that the city was paralysed. The report's only claim about what comes next is Skymet's forecast of two to three additional days of moderate rain, attributed to Mahesh Palawat and tied to multiple incoming weather systems. The IMD's yellow alert and Skymet's two-to-three-day window both run from 5 August 2026, so the rainfall recorded at Safdarjung and Lodhi Road over those days is what tests the forecast.
Source: news.abplive.com
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