Over the course of the next five days, Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Dhule, and Sindhudurg are expected to have moderate to heavy rainfall, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. Additionally, it has issued a yellow warning for certain additional Maharashtra districts, including Palghar, Thane, and Mumbai.
On Friday, it rained more heavily than usual in Mumbai. There were around 100mm of rain in certain places. Rainfall was observed in places like Worli (86 mm), Sandhurst Road (102 mm), and Colaba (92 mm).
Mumbai’s Regional Meteorological Department has issued a warning that the next five days would bring severe rain to a few isolated parts of the city. In certain remote districts of Raigad and Ratnagiri, it also foresaw heavy to extremely rains.
Following the Friday rain, some low-lying districts, including the Andheri subway, witnessed flooding-like conditions on the roadways and waterlogging. The Mumbai Traffic Police also tweeted that traffic was being detoured to Vile Parle bridge and Captain Gore Marg SV road since the Andheri subway was stopped owing to waterlogging. However, Mumbai’s suburban train lines continued to run normally despite the circumstances.
Additionally, IMD has issued a warning to the local fishing community, requesting that they refrain from going out to sea for the next five days. Over the next five days, there will likely be squally weather and severe winds in a number of marine locations. Stay careful at sea and take the required measures, said an IMD tweet.
The department also forecast the development of a synoptic cyclone-like circulation over the northwest corner of the Bay of Bengal. IMD reports that the Gulf of Mannar is likely experiencing squally winds with gusts of 65 kmph across the western, central, and southern Arabian Sea.
“Turbulent wind speed reaching 4-45 kmph gusting to 50 kmph likely over North Kerala-Karnataka-Maharashtra and Southwest Bay of Bengal off Sri Lanka coast,” according to the IMD.
Since Friday, slick roads and waterlogging have also hampered travel in the financial center.
