India, June 16 -- An intense thunderstorm rocked the Capital on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, bringing along with it light to moderate rainfall and gusty winds of 104km/hr-the highest this season and second-highest since 2018-according to India Meteorological Department (IMD). The weather events caused power outages and led to multiple trees being uprooted.

IMD forecast a wet week ahead, and issued a yellow alert for light to moderate rainfall and gusty winds of up to 60km/hr speed till Wednesday. It also said there were chances of light rain and isolated thunderstorms between Thursday and Saturday, but did not issue a colour-coded alert.

"During this intense spell, light to moderate rainfall was recorded, with Safdarjun...