India, Aug. 15 -- An 'orange' alert for moderate rain until 2pm was issued for Delhi by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday.

Morning showers were reported from across the national Capital on the morning of Independence Day, a day after Delhi surpassed both its monthly average and annual rainfall totals - the fastest it has done so in four years.

In the 24 hours till 8:30 am on Friday, Delhi logged 80.4 mm of rainfall at Safdarjung, its base station. This included a brief drizzle of 1 mm between 2:30 am and 5:30 am. The IMD issued a yellow alert for light rain at around 10 am on Friday, updating it to an orange alert at 11.21 am.

"Thunderstorm/lightning with moderate rain is likely in the entire city. This is likely for ...