Very heavy rainfall expected in Mumbai in the next 48 hours, says IMD

While the city was crippled after the heavy rainfall collided with the high tide in the morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted the very heavy rainfall in next 48 hours in Mumbai, Thane and adjoining districts. The officials from IMD said that the weather conditions are favourable for the heavy to very heavy rainfall in next two days. “The weather conditions such as the formation of low pressure area in Bay of Bengal along with active offshore trough and upper air cyclonic circulation off the Gujarat coast have become active. All these factors have reactivated the monsoon in the region. So, the city and adjoining areas are likely to get heavy to very heavy rainfall in next 2-3 days,” said VK Rajeev, director of IMD, Mumbai speaking to Firstpost. [caption id=“attachment_1615119” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. AFP[/caption] Earlier in the morning, water logging cases were reported across the city due to around 50 mm rainfall between 9 am and 10 am which coincided with a 4.36 mt high tide at 11.27 am. “Though rainfall was not that heavy, water-logging was reported as the rainfall coincided with the high tide timing. But, water started receding in the afternoon and the situation is normal in the city,” said a civic official from the civic body’s disaster control room. Severe water-logging cases were reported from the chronic flooding spots such as Hindmata, Dadar TT, Sion station, Carnack Bunder, Byculla, Kurla, Chembur station, Kurla, Mahim junction, Elphinstone road, Malad, Goregaon, Mulund, as well as some other areas. In all, civic body’s disaster cell received around 28 complaints of tree fall and 7 calls of wall collapse till 4 pm. But, no injuries have been reported. According to the civic body’s automatic weather stations, the city has received 50 mm, Eastern suburbs 59 mm and western suburbs 45 mm average rainfall till 4 pm. De-watering pumps have been deployed at many places to flush out water, said the official. The rains disrupted railway traffic and local trains on the central line and harbour line are still running 10 minutes behind the schedule. Due to a wall collapse on platform no 1 at Sandhurst road station the services were halted for sometime in the afternoon but it resumed later on. The traffic along arterial routes was disrupted during peak hours in the morning. Long traffic snarls were reported in Dadar, Worli and Kurla. BEST buses going from Hind Mata, Dadar TT and Mahim junction had to be diverted to other routes.