Mumbai areas flooded in another day of triple-digit rainfall | India News – Times of India

MUMBAI: In line with the IMD‘s red alert for Thursday, parts of the city and the Mumbai Metropolitan region experienced another day of triple-digit rainfall this season, causing several low-lying areas to flood. At 223mm, between July 26-27, IMD’s Colaba observatory recorded the second-highest single-day rainfall for July since 2015, causing parts of Marine Lines to flood. Despite the intense rains, the total stock in the lakes that supply water to the city did not see a major jump-it inched up to 62% from 59% on Wednesday.

While a yellow alert has been declared for Friday for Mumbai and Palghar, an orange alert has been sounded for Raigad and Thane. Schools and colleges in Thane and Palghar will remain shut on Friday.
In the 12 hours from 8.30am on Thursday, IMD’s Colaba observatory recorded close to 89mm rainfall and Santacruz 90.8mm. Between 8am and 6pm, Dahisar received 185mm of rainfall, the highest in the city, followed by Borivli (144mm) and Kandivli (133mm).

Weather enthusiast Athreya Shetty said the offshore trough running from the north Konkan coast to north Kerala coast has been very active, adding that a low pressure over Telangana showed a pull effect towards the northern suburbs on Thursday. Shetty said such weather conditions are expected to continue on Friday.
In rain-related incidents, a 35-year-old woman was injured after a part of a ceiling collapsed on her in Mulund (West). In Goregaon, the retaining wall of New Royal Hill Society came crashing down. No person was injured.
Power cuts were witnessed in parts of far-flung western suburbs, with substations being shut down as a preventive measure.
(Inputs by Manoj Badgeri, Pradeep Gupta, Sandhya Nair & Somit Sen)