With portents of more rain to come today and the day after, Mumbai is on edge after a familiar and tragic pattern of events has unfolded over just two days of heavy rainfall. At last count, more than 35 people in Mumbai and Pune together have been killed in the past 48 hours, in a number of rain-related disasters.

Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi said 540 mm of rain fell in two days in the city, the highest over a two-day period in a decade, and attributed 'climate change and changed geographical conditions' for waterlogging at several places.