Monsoon hits Mumbai with a bang
mumbai — The monsoon officially arrived here on Saturday and hit the city and other parts of Maharashtra with full fury, disrupting flights, the suburban train system and road traffic, besides claiming two lives, officials said.
The Indian Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rains with thundershowers in the city and suburbs over the next 48 hours, with isolated extreme heavy rainfall in some areas till Monday.
On Saturday, according to the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the city was deluged with 76 mm rains till this evening, and the eastern and western suburbs received 28mm and 32mm, respectively. In adjoining Thane, one person was electrocuted and another was killed in a lightning strike at Uttan in Bhayander.
Flights at the Mumbai airport were affected, with Jet Airways announcing delays of around 40 minutes
for departures and 20 minutes for arrivals due to congestion and bad weather till 3pm.
In the neighbouring Navi Mumbai, heavy rains with gusty winds uprooted more than a dozen trees leading to huge traffic jams and
hampering movement in different parts of the satellite city.
Since Friday night, the coastal districts of Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Thane and Palghar also continued to be lashed by heavy rains. —