T3 arrival flooded, flights affected

New Delhi In a first for Delhi, 117 mm rainfall was recorded in just one hour on Thursday near the IGI airport area. The sudden downpour hit flight movement. Drains outside the T3 terminal overflowed, flooding the arrival area.
Airport authorities shut down passenger movement in the domestic arrival lounge and diverted travellers through the international side of T3. Passengers had to walk through water, many with shoes in hand.
“When rainfall is as high as 117 mm in just one hour, we call it a cloudburst. This heavy deluge was witnessed in areas around the airport like Vasant Kunj and Dwarka,” said Dr R K Jenamani, Director-in-charge of the Met Department at IGI Airport.
The rain broke records in the Meteorological department’s observatory at the airport set up in January 1, 1952.
Since all recorded observation of rainfall is for a 24-hour period, the last it poured over the airport was 190.2 mm on September 16, 1963, recorded over 24 hours.
16/09/11 Express India

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