MUMBAI: Heavy rain continued lashing the Mumbai region Saturday with the city receiving nearly 80% of its average July rainfall in just 4 days. Since July 1, the IMD’s Santacruz observatory has recorded 675. 6mm of rain while Colaba got 500mm, taking the city’s cumulative monsoon rainfall past the 1,000mm mark within 12 days of the monsoon’s arrival (see box) .IMD has retained a red alert for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar for Sunday, and issued an orange alert for Monday.
Red alert for city today
Two deaths were reported when youths ventured to the barred and dangerous Pandavkada falls in Navi Mumbai’s Kharghar. Elsewhere, the heavy rains led to water-logging and several cases of rainrelated injuries. Children were able to stay home, as following in the footsteps of Palghar, Thane and Navi Mumbai, BMC declared a holiday for schools and colleges for the second session on Saturday.In Bhandup (W), a stretch of LBS Marg opposite Asian Paints caved in, causing trees at the site to collapse. BMC got 103 complaints of fallen trees and branches, including 21 from the island city, with one within CCI Club, 26 from the eastern suburbs, and 56 from the western suburbs.
