The latest update givenby the IMD, Indian Meteorological Department has predicted that Mumbai willexperience moderate to intense rain showers and that will continue for the nextthree hours in continuity. Further, thedepartment said that the isolated areas such as Goa and Konkan will experienceheavy downpours. The coastal area of Karnataka is expected to observe heavy tovery heavy rains. Few areas of Kerala and Mahe will also experience heavy rain.
This has caused a delayin the buses and local trains as the roads are waterlogged due to the heavyrainfall especially in the areas of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Palghar, and theneighboring areas. It is informed that these intense rains are because of thelow pressure which is over the southern parts of Gujarat and an active monsoon hasbeen predicted to be over the western coast of the nation.
According to KSHosalikar, the senior India Meteorological Department official, Mira Road hasreceived a heavy pour of rain i.e. 73 mm, 136mm is received by Juhu, 56.5 mm isreceived by Mahalaxmi, Bandar has received 141 mm of rainfall, and Santa Cruzhas received 25.1 mm of rain. Mumbai and Thane has been marked under an orangealert and Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Kolhapur, and Satara districts are marked asRed alert.
It was reported by theThane Municipal Corporation informed that a person was injured near Kopari,Thane, after a truck was overturned on Eastern Express Highway around 2 am, amidthe intense rain. The injured person was shifted to the hospital nearby.
The local train servicesare running 20-25 minutes late than the schedule on the Central Railway’s mainline and on the Harbour line. The local train services are currently runningonly for personnel for the health and other essential services and are in theview of the COVID-19 pandemic. The downpour is continued since early morning. Allthe roads are flooded heavily and the routes of the buses are diverted onAndheri, Chembur, Sion, and Wadala.
The city of dreams saw awhopping 157 mm of rains in three hours taking the 24-hour rain figure to 253mm, a report by Skymet Weather said. Efforts to remove the water by a waterpumping mechanism are on the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation).