Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport at Babatpur logged light rain through Thursday and opened Friday morning still wet, according to official VEBN METARs.
Thursday’s sequence shows mist and light rain alternating across the day. Morning METARs around 0900 UTC carried broken low cloud, overcast higher layers and visibility near three kilometres with light rain. By late morning and early afternoon, visibility held around 2.5 to four kilometres with mist or light rain, and one midday report added a temporary thunderstorm-rain risk down to about 1.5 km. Through the late afternoon and into the evening (roughly 241230Z to 241700Z), the station kept reporting light rain, scattered low cloud, broken mid cloud, a few cumulonimbus in several hours, overcast higher cloud, temperatures near 25–26°C and QNH around 1003–1006 hPa. Visibility in that evening stretch sat near 2.5 to three kilometres.
Friday morning did not clear. The 0300Z observation (about 8:30 am IST) read 08012G22KT — wind from about 080 degrees at 12 knots gusting 22 — with 2500 metres visibility, light rain, scattered cloud at 800 feet, broken at 1,800 feet, overcast at 9,000 feet, temperature 25°C, dew point 23°C and Q1004. Half an hour later, 0330Z showed 08013KT, the same 2500 metres and light rain, and a becoming group toward 3000 metres in mist. That gusty Friday opening is the cleanest difference from Thursday’s steadier light-rain day.
For city readers, the METAR story is not a neighbourhood rainfall map. It is the official airport weather string for VEBN, useful for flight ops, taxi queues on the Babatpur road, and a sense of how widespread the moist monsoon feed remained overnight. Visibility locked near 2.5 km in light rain is enough to slow surface movement and keep low cloud on the approach; gusts into the low twenties on Friday morning add a short-lived crosswind note for smaller aircraft.
Pair it with the separate IMD East Uttar Pradesh subdivision update dated 25 September, which still shows very heavy rain language on Friday and Saturday for the wider East UP box.
Thursday’s TEMPO thunderstorm-rain flag around midday was a short risk window inside an otherwise light-rain day. Friday’s gusting light rain at 2.5 km visibility is a different texture: same wet apron, sharper wind. Ground handlers and passenger coaches usually expect slower turns when light rain and low broken cloud persist past breakfast; that is the operational reading of the 250300Z and 250330Z strings.
