India, May 9 -- India Meteorological Department (IMD) has sounded a yellow alert for Friday night, forecasting scattered rain expected in isolated parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region. It said winds are also expected to increase towards the night - to 30-40 km/hour, possibly gusting up to 50 km/hr.

Isolated light rain was recorded in southwest Delhi during the day, with Palam recording 5.3mm of rainfall between 8:30am and 5:30pm. In the past 24 hours till Friday's 8:30 am, isolated light rain was recorded in parts of east and central Delhi with Mayur Vihar and Lodhi road recording 0.5mm and 'trace' rainfall respectively.

IMD has forecast that the impact of a prevailing western disturbance would continue till Saturday, with ver...