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Mumbai Rains: City records 100 mm rains, possibility of flash floods
Updated On: 05 August, 2020 05:51 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Mumbai Police personnel manage traffic on the flooded streets near JJ bridge in South Mumbai. Pic/Ashish Raje
Heavy rains accompanied with thunderstorm and gusty winds continued to batter Mumbai and its adjoining areas on Wednesday. The extremely heavy rainfall led to waterlogging in several low-lying areas including Bandra, Dadar, Churchgate, and Byculla among others.
Very intense development seen over west coast with monsoon vigarous on North Konkan; Mumbai, Thane, Raigad & Palghar. Ghat areas of Maharashtra also to recv Extremely heavy RF next 24 hrs.
— K S Hosalikar (@Hosalikar_KS) August 5, 2020
Mumbai already recorded RF 100 mm in last 6 hrs.
Possibilities of floods in city & Suburbs. pic.twitter.com/Xpd7QOm1sp
India Meteorological Department's (IMD) Deputy Director-General of Meteorology, KS Hosalikar, took to Twitter to inform citizens that monsoon is very active over Maharashtra. In another tweet, Hosalikar said there has been a very intense development over the west coast with monsoon vigorous on North Konkan; Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, and Palghar.


