India, Aug. 24 -- A series of short, but intense, bursts of rain disrupted weekend plans of residents across the National Capital Region (NCR) on Saturday, forcing people to scramble for cover nearly throughout Saturday, even as the weather office predicted that the wet spell will continue at least till Monday.

Delhi initially had a yellow alert in place for Saturday, which was upgraded to an 'orange' alert at 3.42pm and further to a 'red' alert by 5.10pm, as bursts of rain were recorded across southeast, south, north, central and west Delhi, accompanied by winds of 30-40 km/hr. Safdarjung, Delhi's base station for weather, recorded 2.6mm in the 24 hours till 8.30am, adding another 24.8mm in the next nine hours, data till 5.30pm showed. ...