The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for Mumbai for Friday, indicating “heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places.” IMD has also issued a yellow alert for the 24th and 25th of July, indicating heavy rain in isolated areas.
The city is still being battered by constant rain, which has resulted in waterlogging and traffic snarls in several areas. On Thursday, Mumbai experienced a significant decrease in rainfall intensity after IMD’s Santa Cruz monitoring station recorded only 1.1mm of rain in eight hours ending at 5.30pm. During the same time period on Wednesday, this was at 50.2mm.
This month’s total rainfall is 1,040mm, making it the fourth year in a row that July rains have exceeded 1000mm. The normal rainfall forecast for July is 827mm. Since June, the city has received 2,002.5mm of rain, accounting for more than 90% of the total monsoon rainfall target.
The Central Railway’s services were disrupted on Thursday as a result of heavy rains in Mumbai and the Konkan region of Maharashtra since Wednesday night. On the railway network, there have been reports of track washouts and waterlogging. Local train services were disrupted in the early hours of Thursday, but the situation quickly stabilised and operations were resumed.
Meanwhile, in the early hours of Thursday, the Modak Sagar and Tansa lakes, which are among the seven lakes that supply water to Mumbai, overflowed. On July 16, the Tulsi lake was the first to overflow, followed by the Vihar lake two days later. On Thursday, the total amount of water available in these seven lakes was 53.86 percent.
