After torrential rain in Mumbai left residents in disarray amid key infrastructure taking successful on Wednesday night, knowledge from the India Meteorological Division (IMD) exhibits that the town reeled beneath the best single-day rainfall recorded since 2020 between Wednesday and Thursday morning.
The IMD, in its newest assertion, has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall alongside thunderstorms within the metropolis and its suburbs on Thursday, issuing an orange alert in Mumbai and Thane.
In view of the showers, the IMD had positioned Mumbai and Thane beneath pink alerts till 8.30 am on Thursday, prompting the municipal companies to declare closure of colleges and schools in each districts. In the meantime, with a pink alert sounded for Palghar all through Thursday, the district administration has additionally introduced vacation for faculties in Palghar district.
Mumbai metropolis clocked almost half of its September’s month-to-month common quota in a single day on Wednesday, and it has surpassed its month-to-month common (360 mm) by a surplus of over 40 per cent.
Knowledge furnished by the climate bureau confirmed that previously 24 hours ending 8.30 am on Thursday, its Santacruz station recorded 170.3 mm rain whereas the Colaba coastal observatory registered 169.2 mm rainfall, making it the wettest day in September of the 12 months thus far.
Data confirmed that that is the best single day rainfall recorded within the month of September since 2020, when 286.4 mm rain lashed Mumbai in a 24-hour interval on September 24. The wettest day ever in September was recorded in 1981, with a particularly heavy spell of 318.2 mm recorded on September 23.
At 170 mm, the town additionally logged almost half of the September’s month-to-month common quota – which is 360 mm – in a single day. Having logged almost 510 mm rain within the month of September thus far, the town has surpassed its month-to-month common rain quota by almost 41 per cent now.
Mumbai metropolis and suburbs, together with key arterial routes just like the western and japanese categorical freeway, and JVLR, have been inundated on Wednesday night. After the town clocked solely 16 mm rain till 5.30 pm, the downpour took an intense flip with a number of pockets receiving over 250 mm rain throughout the subsequent six hours.
As per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) knowledge, the heaviest showers have been recorded within the japanese suburbs which acquired a median of 171 mm rain, adopted by the island metropolis division which recorded 117.18 mm rain, whereas the western suburbs clocked a median of 109 mm rain between Wednesday and Thursday morning till 8 am.
The incessant showers led to site visitors snarls in addition to railway and flight disruptions with 14 flights getting diverted from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport (CSMIA) to different cities till Wednesday night time. Owing to water-logging, site visitors crawled at a snail’s tempo alongside main arterial routes with the Brihanmumbai Electrical Provide and Transport (BEST) additionally diverting buses alongside at the very least 20 routes.
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