India, Sept. 4 -- Delhi and its adjoining areas experienced a rainy afternoon on Friday, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to elevate the yellow warning for the city to a red alert, cautioning of more rains accompanied with thunderstorms.

The weather conditions also impacted flight operations in Delhi on Friday, with nine diversions - four to Jaipur, as many to Lucknow and one to Ahmedabad - between 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm.

Air India issued an advisory for its passengers and said in a post on X that flight operations to and from Delhi stand chances of being affected due to adverse weather conditions.

Along with Delhi, Uttar Pradesh's Noida and Ghaziabad were also placed under an orange warning by the IMD, according to the...