Mumbai Rain Update: Local train services hit, road traffic crawls amid downpour in city

After a agelong hiatus, dense rains returned to lash Mumbai and suburbs connected Wednesday, inundating low-lying areas, stopping section trains connected tracks betwixt Kurla and Thane stations and stranding passengers adjacent arsenic postulation crawled connected roads.

The IMD upgraded its orangish alert for Mumbai metropolis and its neighbouring districts to a reddish alert, valid till 8.30 americium connected Thursday.

Officials said 2 flights were diverted and 7 flights had to marque a go-around astatine Mumbai airdrome owed to inclement weather.

Several suburbs of Mumbai person been receiving important rainfall from Wednesday afternoon, with Mulund and its surroundings experiencing the heaviest rainfall, inundating low-lying areas.

Heavy showers person been lashing the land metropolis from the evening, slowing down roadworthy postulation owed to water-logging and mediocre visibility. Local bid services were besides delayed owed to rains, said officials.

In its latest warning, issued astatine 5.30 pm, IMD predicted “extremely dense rainfall and thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds astatine isolated places” successful Mumbai, Thane, Raigad and Ratnagiri districts.

The Met section has issued a reddish alert for Palghar and an orangish 1 for Thane, Raigad, Mumbai and Pune for September 26. An orangish alert has been issued for Nashik and Dhule districts successful northbound Maharashtra.

Significant water-logging was reported from Kurla, Chembur, Mulund, Vikhroli, Breach Candy and immoderate different areas successful Mumbai, wherever radical tin beryllium seen wading their mode done waist-level water.

NCP (SP) person Supriya Sule showed a submerged roadworthy successful Breach Candy country of southbound Mumbai done a Facebook unrecorded session. She offered a assistance to a idiosyncratic stranded extracurricular a building.

Water-logging connected tracks affected the services of section trains and explicit trains astatine immoderate places betwixt Kurla and Thane, leaving commuters stranded astatine antithetic stations.

"Kurla railway way was inundated owed to dense rains, forcing section trains to halt connected tracks betwixt Thane and Mumbai. Thousands of passengers are stranded successful these trains," a railway commuter said.

Mumbai's eastbound suburbs received the highest rainfall of little than 30 mm earlier 6 p.m. connected Wednesday, a Mumbai civic assemblage authoritative said.

As IMD issued a reddish alert for Mumbai, metropolis civic commissioner Bhushan Gagrani asked each adjunct commissioners to guarantee that respective enforcement engineers enactment enactment successful ward power rooms.

He besides directed main engineers of the Stormwater Drains (SWD) section to guarantee SWD unit is connected the tract and de-watering pumps are operational.

Deputy main engineers person been asked to beryllium disposable successful their respective zones astatine night, Gagrani added.

All Deputy Municipal Commissioners person besides been directed to show the concern successful their respective zones.

IMD idiosyncratic Sushma Nair said a trough runs from northbound Konkan to southbound Bangladesh crossed a cyclonic circulation implicit southbound Chhattisgarh and its neighbourhood extending to the mediate tropospheric level tilting southwards with height.

"This volition pb to reasonably wide to wide light/moderate rainfall is precise apt implicit Konkan and Goa during the week," she said.

Isolated dense rainfall is precise apt implicit Konkan and Goa and cardinal Maharashtra during September 25-27.