'It took me three hours and 45 minutes to cover a distance of eight kilometres from my home in Palam (west Delhi) to my office in R.K. Puram in a car,' said Nishant Sharma.

For Nikita Jain, who commutes between Gurgaon and Delhi, the traffic woes were unending.

'It took me some 45 minutes to reach Delhi from Gurgaon. However, to cross the next two kilometres it took some two-and-a-half hours. People were actually standing out of their cars and chatting,' Jain added.

On Thursday, Delhi recorded 112 mm of rain, the heaviest rainfall of the month. This has resulted in the mercury plummeting with the maximum temperature hovering at 25.9 degrees Celsius and the minimum at 24.0 degrees Celsius.

The meteorological department, however, predicted that the rainfall will start 'declining' from Saturday.

'The rainfall will start declining from tomorrow (Saturday). The cyclonic condition over Madhya Pradesh has started weakening, which will lead to the decline in the rainfall,' a Met department official told IANS.