Scores of Mumbaikars who did not step out of their houses and even changed their travel plans following IMD's red alert on Friday were left red-faced. As the rain activities subsided on Friday, the weather bureau downgraded the rain alert from red to orange later during the day.

Twitteratis mocked the IMD's red alert warning in every possible way. Taking a dig at IMD a Twitterati posted: "Red Alert! This sure shot means no rains today :) IMD pe full bharosa hai.  Another person Nirmal Bhambhani stated: that the forecast is unreliable. I gave my staff WFH (work from home) today but no rains."