India, July 29 -- Heavy rain lashed parts of Delhi on Tuesday morning, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting an intense downpour over the next two hours. The regional Met Centre also forecast that the rain spell is likely to continue over the next seven days, until August 3.

According to the weather department's nowcast: "Intense to very intense spells of rain very likely to continue over many parts of Delhi and NCR during the next 1-2 hours."

The IMD's regional centre in New Delhi predicts: "Generally cloudy sky. Light rain at most places and moderate rain at isolated places accompanied with thunderstorm/lightning."

The forecast from July 31 to August 3 mentions: "Partly cloudy sky. very light to light rain accompa...