India, March 20 -- People are layering up in Delhi again as the weather saw a sudden turn this week while the city was approaching the summer season, with rain, brought by a "rare" western disturbance, lashing parts of the city as well as its adjoining areas of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, Noida, Haryana's Faridabad and Gurugram.

The sudden change in weather, that intensified from Wednesday evening, is due to a western disturbance is triggered by an active western disturbance impacting northwest India and keeping temperatures in Delhi several notches below average.

Delhi-NCR on Friday also woke up to rainfall and a yellow-coloured warning as the minimum temperature settled at 16 degrees Celsius, 4.5 below normal, according to the India Me...