India, Aug. 31 -- Delhi's adjoining city of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad woke up to heavy rain on Sunday, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red alert and an orange alert over Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida).

Delhi, meanwhile, was not under any weather alert, as per the nowcast on IMD website on Sunday morning.

The red alert in Ghaziabad was valid up to 11 am.

The weather has turned pleasant in Delhi-NCR and relatively colder for this time of the year with intermittent heavy spells of rain lately.

Delhi is on course to record its coolest August in the last 13 years since 2012, with the average maximum temperature till Saturday logged at 33.2 degrees Celsius, according to IMD data cited in an earlier HT report. The ...