On the day heavy rains lashed the Capital  and waterlogging was reported from several places, a 27-year-old man drowned in a flooded area of southwest Delhi on Monday while filming the rain, police said. Monsoon that arrived 15 days late in Delhi has caused heavy rains in the NCR area in the past couple of days

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“A 27-year-old man drowned under waterlogged railway underpass in Pul Prahlad Pur area while filming the waterlogging,” news agency ANI reported quoting Delhi Police.

“Information was received around 1.40 pm regarding the drowning of a person below railway underpass Pul Prahladpur. Fire brigade and divers were called in to rescue him but later his body was recovered and he was identified as Ravi Chautala,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) R P Meena said, according to PTI.

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The man, according to reports, was a resident of Jaitpur. The police, quoting eyewitnesses, said the man went into the water to shoot a video and was also taking selfies when he slipped and was washed away.

The Delhi Traffic police, through its official Twitter handle, kept on posting traffic updates through the day and advised commuters against using flooded areas. The police also shared videos of the waterlogged areas. Among the areas flooded were Tikri Road, Lumpur underpass, Ramdev chowk in Narela, Sheikh Sarai, Pul Prahladpur and ITO.

Long traffic jams due to heavy rains were reported from the Ring Road near Millennium Park, Sarai Kale Khan, Kilokri, near IP Flyover, Dhaula Kuan, Vikas Marg, Azadpur, among others.

The IMD had a difficult time forecasting the arrival of this year’s monsoon in Delhi. After several failed forecasts, the IMD Monday acknowledged that such a type of failure in predicting the monsoon over the capital was ‘rare and uncommon’.

The Met office started off by saying that the rains would hit Delhi  on June 15, which would have been 12 days earlier than the normal arrival time. But this went wrong as the wind system entered a “break” phase. In early June, the Met office changed its prediction and said the conditions will become favourable for the monsoon by July 7. This too had to be revised, several times. The rains finally arrived on July 13, almost a month late as compared to the first prediction by the Met office.