Waterlogging in Dadar after a heavy downpour. (Express Photo: Nirmal Harindran)
Mumbai Rains Live Updates: The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for the Mumbai Metropolitan
Region (MMR) and some other parts of Maharashtra for Wednesday. The red alert was issued for the second consecutive day as rains have been lashing Mumbai and adjoining districts since Tuesday night. The alert was issued for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts. While the warning for Mumbai is only for Wednesday, that for Thane, Palghar and Nashik is for Wednesday and Thursday.
Due to the forecast, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has advised all offices and establishments in the city, barring emergency services, to remain closed today. People have been advised to avoid leaving their homes. Bombay High Court in light of the situation has adjourned its virtual hearings scheduled for today.
Several areas are waterlogged in the city, hampering the movement of people. Transport services on the main and harbour lines of Vadala and Parel remain suspended. However, shuttle services between Vashi, Panvel and Kalyan are operating as of now, Mumbai’s Central Rail Chief Public Relations Officer confirmed.
The high tide is expected to set in at 12.47 pm. This spell of rain marks Mumbai’s second since mid-July. The intensity of rain is likely to decrease from August 6.
Top angle view of the Fort and the eastern waterfront from Taj Hotel. (Express File Photo: Amit Chakravarty)
Two fishermen are missing while 11 were rescued after a boat capsized some 12 kilometres off Gorai beach in north Mumbai on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The boat, Lucky Stat, with 13 fishermen on board, got caught in heavy rains and capsized, a Gorai police station official said. "Men from another boat in the vicinity jumped in and managed to rescue 11 of the 13 on board Lucky Stat. However, two are still missing and search operations are continuing for them. The vessel has also not been found," he informed.
The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and some other parts of Maharashtra for Wednesday. The red alert was issued for the second consecutive day as rains have been lashing Mumbai and adjoining districts since Tuesday night.
"The red alert of extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places has been issued for Wednesday. The probability of it is very likely, which means it could actualise up to 75 per cent," an IMD official said. The alert was issued for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts, he said. While the warning for Mumbai is only for Wednesday, that for Thane, Palghar and Nashik is for Wednesday and Thursday, the official said. Extremely heavy rainfall is defined as a rainfall above 204.4 mm in 24 hours, he said. --PTI
A 35-year-old woman and her two children were swept away in a swollen nullah after their house collapsed due to heavy rainfall in suburban Santacruz here on Tuesday afternoon, an official said. The incident took place at around 11.30 am in Dhobighat locality, where a ground plus one-storey house attached to a nullah collapsed as rains lashed the area, the official from the fire brigade said. A woman and her three children, aged between one to seven years, fell into the flooded nullah and were swept away, he said. --PTI
Starting Monday night, Mumbai and its surrounding areas have been experiencing incessant heavy rainfall, leading to waterlogging in sevral areas and disruption of transport services in the city. SEE MORE HERE
Local train services were suspended on some routes in Mumbai and suburbs on Tuesday morning due to water-logging on rail tracks following heavy overnight rain in the city, officials said. The Santacruz observatory in western suburbs recorded 254 mm rainfall since Monday night while the Colaba observatory in south Mumbai recorded 220 mm rain during the same period, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
'Due to high tide resulting in water logging at Wadala and Parel suburban services are suspended on main line and harbour line. However, shuttle services are running between Vashi and Panvel & Thane and Kalyan-beyond,' Central Railway's Chief Public Relations Officer Shivaji Sutar tweeted.
A person got electrocuted after accidentally touching an electric pole in Maharashtra's Thane city on Tuesday morning following heavy overnight rains, police said. The man was standing near a temple in Ovla area on Ghodbunder Road when he accidentally touched the electric pole and got electrocuted around 8.30 am, an official from Kasarwadavali police station said.
The body was sent to the civil hospital for postmortem, he said, adding that the deceased was yet to be identified. In another incident, a part of the ceiling plaster of a building in a housing complex in Vartak Nagar fell down in the morning, but there was no report of any casualty, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said. --PTI
The Maharashtra government announced a holiday for all its offices in Mumbai city and suburbs on Tuesday in view of the heavy rainfall in the metropolis and neighbouring areas. Heavy showers caused water-logging at several places in the city and disrupted local train services and road traffic movement.
"Due to the heavy rainfall in Mumbai and the suburban region and prediction of (more) heavy rainfall by the IMD, holiday has been declared for all state government offices in the Mumbai and Mumbai suburban region today, the state relief and rehabilitation department said in an official communication.
Bombay High Court on Tuesday adjourned its virtual hearings on various cases due to the heavy rains in Mumbai since Monday night.
A landslide on Western Express Highway in suburban Kandivali due to heavy rains on early Tuesday morning has impacted the vehicular movement from the western suburbs towards south Mumbai affecting regular commuters and those involved in emergency services as authorities closed some portion of the road for clearing the debris, officials said. The Western Express Highway (WEH) is a major north- south arterial road, stretching from Dahisar to suburban andra in Mumbai.(With PTI inputs)
As showers continued in Mumbai, during the last 3 hours (8:30 to 11:30 AM) Mumbai's Colaba station recorded 6mm of rainfall while the Santacruz observatory recorded 19mm rain. Thane district reported 16mm of rainfall during the same period. The Indian meteorological department has warned of intense to very intense rainfall in the next 3 hours.
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Mayor Kishori Pednekar visited Dadar and Hindmata after waterlogging was reported in these areas following heavy rains.
Considered among the wettest areas in Maharashtra – due to its orographic conditions – Mahabaleshwar’s annual rainfall is nearly 5,710 mm. Most of the rainfall takes place between June and September, amounting to nearly 5,530.1 mm, making it a tourist hotspot in the rainy season.
This year, Mahabaleshwar recorded its driest June and July — the first two months of the Southwest Monsoon — in five decades. In the last two months, the hill station in Satara district has recorded 1,922.8 mm rain, which is 40 per cent below normal for this time of the year. (Read Anjali Marar's report here)
Scattered heavy to very heavy rainfall in Mumbai and its suburbs in the last 24 hours.
Multiple and simultaneous favourable weather systems are presently active, which have revived the southwest monsoon. Since Sunday night, there has been continuous heavy rainfall reported all along the west coast of Maharashtra, Goa and Kerala, with very heavy rain in Mumbai, Ratnagiri and Mahabaleshwar. (Read our explainer here)
As suburban services between Bandra-Churchgate were suspended due to waterlogging at Dadar & Prabhadevi, Western Railways are running special services between Virar-Andheri-Bandra.
On 56 routes across Mumbai, bus routes were diverted and some cancelled due to flooding and waterlogging over 25 roads.Here are the details of all the bus routes affected today.
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) has warned an expected tide of 4.45 meters at 12:47 pm today when the tide would be at its peak.
According to IMD, rainfall recorded at other places in the city till 8.30 am Tuesday
Dahisar-254mm
Mahalaxmi-180mm
Mira Road-273mm
Ram Mandir-230mm
Bhayander-156mm
Ratnagiri-189mm
Sindhudurg-158mm