Mumbai suburbs receive moderate to heavy rains, more showers likely

In the past 24 hours, Mumbai and its suburbs have had moderate to heavy rain, and the meteorological service has forecast further showers over the coming day with the chance of sporadic intense rain spells, officials said.

While train services were unaffected by rains in Mumbai, a technical glitch in the engine of a goods train affected services in the Karjat-Badlapur section of the suburban railway network, a Central Railway (CR) spokesperson said.

Bus services of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport were normal and there was no diversion anywhere in the city, a BEST spokesperson said. On Sunday, the monsoon covered both Delhi and Mumbai together for the first time since June 21, 1961, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) earlier said.

While it hit the national capital two days before schedule, its entry into the financial capital is two weeks late, the MeT office said. Mumbai city received moderate rainfall while the suburbs recorded heavy showers in the last 24 hours with some areas getting very heavy downpour, IMD’s Mumbai centre scientist Sushma Nair said.

The island city, eastern and western suburbs received 31 mm, 54 mm and 59 mm average rainfall, respectively, in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am on Monday, a spokesperson of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. IMD has predicted moderate to heavy showers in the city and suburbs with a possibility of occasional intense rain spells in the next 24 hours, he said.