The administration has decided to close the school for classes 1 to 8 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, amid the forecast of heavy rain on Friday.

It has been raining in Delhi NCR for the last few days.

Due to this, people in Gurugram including Delhi, Noida are also facing water logging.

Due to heavy rains in Gurugram on Thursday, a jam situation was observed on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway.

Here the vehicles were stuck in the jam for several hours.

Let us inform that the fresh rains just before the withdrawal of monsoon from NCR will help in meeting the shortfall in rainfall (46 per cent in September so far) to some extent.

Due to this the air will also be clean and the temperature will also be controlled.

According to the Safdarjung Observatory, 31.2 mm of rain was recorded from 8:30 am (8:30) to 5.30 pm (5:30) on Thursday.

On the other hand, Palam, Lodhi Road, Ridge and Ayanagar observatories have recorded 56.5 mm, 27.4 mm, 16.8 mm and 45.8 mm of rain, respectively.

Delhi University, Jafarpur, Najafgarh, Pusa and Mayur Vihar have received 16.5 mm, 18 mm, 29 mm, 24.5 mm and 25.5 mm of rain, respectively.

The Safdarjung observatory has recorded 58.5 mm of rainfall in September so far (till Thursday morning) while the normal level is 108.5 mm.

Due to lack of favorable weather system in Northwest India, 41.6 mm of rainfall was recorded in August, which is the lowest in nearly 14 years.

Delhi received 405.3 mm of rain since June 1, which is less than the normal rainfall of 621.7 mm.

The IMD had said on Tuesday that the normal date for the return of southwest monsoon is September 17 and it has returned from many parts of southwest Rajasthan and adjoining Kutch, three days from the normal date.