Mumbai Weather: IMD issues red alert due to heavy rainfall, more rain showers probably tomorrow | Checking the forecast

The IMD issued a red warning for Mumbai on Saturday, as the city was still facing heavy rainfall, which weakened several areas. The IMD predicted thunderstorms and lightning with winds of up to 40 km / h and said that heavy rain (more than 15 mm per hour) was very likely about the suburban area in Mumbai today. A red warning was also issued for Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Nanded, Parbhani and Hingoli in Maharashtra. The weather division issued a prediction of “heavy to very heavy rainfall with exceptionally heavy rainfall at isolated places over Gujarat region, Madhya Maharashtra, Telangana and Vidarbha.” The rainfall is likely to continue tomorrow, as the IMD Mumbai rains forecast until August 19, with an orange warning. BMC calls on citizens not to pay attention to the persistent rain, but the BMC has called on the citizens to prevent them from stepping out of their homes. “The Municipal Corporation in Brihanmumbai calls on citizens to prevent them from leaving their homes unless it is absolutely necessary. In the case of any need, for help or official information, contact the Brihanmumbai Municipal’s most important control room in 1916 and work with the municipal administration.” The municipal corporation said all its staff and systems work on land to control the situation. “Special attention is paid to critical services such as the rainwater drainage system, sewerage system and pumping stations, with the necessary measures implemented immediately to ensure that there are no disruptions in the drainage of rainwater,” it states. The rainy rain started around 1am and continued in the early hours of the morning, who weakened in the low -lying areas of the western and eastern suburbs, including Vikhroli, Ghatkopar, Bhandup, Chunabhatti, Aarey, Andheri, Kings Circle, Malad and Goregaon, among others. Two death in landslide were killed two people in the Virkholi area as a result of a landslide caused by the rain in Mumbai. The incident happened at about 2:39 pm in Varsha Nagar in Vikhroli Parksite, officials said. Land and stones of a nearby hill collapsed on a hut and injured four people, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Two of them were pronounced dead in a hospital with their arrival. More than 200 mm of rain in different districts, Vicoli, located in the eastern suburbs of Mumvau, recorded the highest rainfall at 248.5 mm, followed by Santacruz, Zion and Juhu. The IMD said many other parts of Mumbai recorded more than 200 mm of rainfall. The weakening caused traffic to stop. The suburban train services were also severely affected due to the weakening of tracks in various places on the central and western railway lines. The rainfall led to traces being plunged on the main line at Matunga, Zion, Kurla, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar and Bhandup, and Wadala, Chunabhatti, Tilak Nagar and Kurla on the harbor. Bus services were also hit, and the best buses were derived from weakened areas in Zion, Kings Circle, Aarey Colony and Malad Subway.