Mumbai on Alert as Heavy Rains Lash City; IMD Forecasts More Showers in Next 24 Hours

Mumbai and its adjoining areas witnessed heavy downpour on July 5, Tuesday morning, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted moderate to heavy rain in Mumbai and its suburbs over the next 24 hours, with a possibility of very heavy showers at isolated places, civic officials said.

The island city received an average 95.81 mm rainfall in the 24 hour period ending at 8 am on Tuesday, while the eastern and western suburbs recorded 115.09 mm and 116.73 mm rainfall, respectively, during the same period, they said.

The local train services, considered as the lifeline of Mumbai, were running normally on both the Central Railway and Western Railway routes, authorities said.

Over 75 lakh passengers from Mumbai and neighbouring districts travel in local trains every day.

“Trains on all corridors are running smoothly, though it’s raining in the CSMT-Kurla-Thane section,” the Central



Railway’s chief public relations officer Shivaji Sutar said.

The IMD has also predicted heavy to very heavy rain in neighbouring Thane district for the next few days.

On Monday, the IMD had issued a ‘yellow alert’ for Mumbai and Thane, predicting heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places over the next five days.

Issues such as waterlogging and traffic congestion have been reported from the financial capital. Five National Disaster Response Force teams have been deployed in the city in view of the heavy rain forecast, media reported.

Several areas in the city, including Sion and Chembur, have reported heavy waterlogging.

Meanwhile, a landslide incident has been reported in Ghatkopar, Panchsheel Nagar amid heavy rain, news agency ANI reported, citing the city’s fire brigade. Fire vehicles are reaching at the spot, it said, adding that no deaths have been reported so far.