New Delhi

The heavy downpour in the national capital on Tuesday morning brought respite from the heat, yet disrupted normal life.

The rain caused massive traffic jams in various parts of the capital city leaving commuters stranded in long queues of cars on major roads.

Apart from traffic jams, water logging was also reported from all the low-lying areas of the city.

Starting in the early hours, several parts of the Delhi-NCR were lashed with heavy rains with a minimum temperature of 26.2 degrees Celsius recorded at the Safdarjung observatory.

Rain is likely to continue throughout Tuesday.

Meanwhile, heavy rains lashed Mumbai and its suburbs amid an 'orange' alert issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Several parts of Mumbai were affected by waterlogging leading to traffic snarls across the city.

The IMD predicted moderate to heavy rainfall is expected, for the next 24 hours, in the city and its suburbs, with the possibility of heavy rainfall in isolated places.

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Meanwhile, the national weather forecasting agency, IMD on Sunday, predicted intense wet spells over Gujarat, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, and coastal Karnataka from today onwards.