Heavy Rain In Mumbai For Next Three Days, Says Weather Department

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that isolated areas in Maharashtra, including Mumbai, are likely to witness heavy downpour in coming days.

Heavy rains hit Mumbai and its neighbouring areas during the night and on Wednesday morning, after a dry spell of nearly a week. The weatherman has predicted more rains in the city and its suburbs in the next two days.

The monsoon returned in full force to Mumbai today morning, with the city recording over 170 mm of rainfall between midnight and 7 am. The city's suburbs recorded nearly 60 mm of rain in the same period

The India Meteorological Department on Tuesday issued a heavy rainfall warning for Mumbai stating that a cyclonic circulation would bring more showers to the city in the next two days.

Twelve people were killed and over 40 feared trapped after a decades-old, four-storey building collapsed in south Mumbai's crowded Dongri neighbourhood around 11:40 am on Tuesday. Eight people have been rescued.

Amitabh Bachchan's meme on the Mumbai rains also went crazy viral earlier this month

A senior Mumbai police officer, stopping Mr Shivakumar from entering the hotel, said: "Sir, (the rebel lawmakers) have said they are frightened of you, we can't allow you to enter unless they want us to."

The railway services in Mumbai that were hit due to heavy rains resumed this morning. Central Railways had arranged special trains to clear the rush.

Airlines have issued advisories warning passengers of further delays should the weather worsen. Air Vistara and SpiceJet tweeted asking all passengers to check their respective flight statuses for updates

A high tide of 4.74 meters is expected to hit Mumbai later today, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Saturday.

Flight operations have resumed on the main runway at the Mumbai Airport after it was closed late Monday. A SpiceJet flight had overshot while landing amid heavy rain and had been stuck at the end of it.

It was a miraculous escape for six-month-old Ayush Sharma, who was sleeping with his parents when a wall came crashing down on their shanty at Pimpripada in Malad in the wee hours on Tuesday.

Maruti Suzuki India today announced reaching out to its customers affected by the heavy rains in Mumbai.

An annual event now, the city of Mumbai finds itself coming to a halt every time the rain gods are a little more generous than usual. The city's crumbling infrastructure can barely handle its population, it certainly does not have space to accommodate more water or the means to channelise it efficiently into the Arabian sea. In the recent spell of showers, the city re...

Aviation regulator DGCA has asked airlines that safety cannot be compromised at any cost and has asked them to ensure that pilots don't use an "unstabilised approach" while landing aircraft in bad weather. The advisory, titled "Monsoon Operations", comes after a SpiceJet plane overshot the runway during landing at the Mumbai airport amid heavy rain on Tuesday night an...

Mumbai rains: Heavy rains lashed Mumbai in the last three days leading to heavy traffic jams, water logging and cancellation of buses, flights and trains that paralyzed the city. The Western Railway's services were normal, giving much respite to the commuters.

Mumbai rain: Mumbai local train services, the sub-urban rail services, on the Central Line which connects Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in South Mumbai to suburban districts of Thane, Kalyan and Navi Mumbai will run as per Sunday's timetable on Wednesday.

India's financial capital limped back to normalcy Wednesday morning with public transport resuming services after torrential rains, that lashed the city since Sunday, subsided.

Nineteen people were killed after heavy rainfall led to a breach in the Tiware Dam in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district at around 9.30 pm on July 2

Twenty one people were killed as heavy rain pounded Mumbai and its surrounding areas overnight, flooding the airport and paralysing local trains, the lifeline of India's commercial capital.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut is being criticized for posting a poem about rain on Twitter, at a time when record rain in Mumbai has killed several people and brought life to standstill in Mumbai.

In just 24 hours, Mumbai has witnessed the highest rainfall - over 370 mm - and the worst in July since the deluge of 2005. Overnight, a wall collapsed in suburban Malad, killing 21; heavy rain flooded the airport and paralysed local train, the lifeline of India's commercial capital.

The main runway of the Mumbai airport is likely to remain closed for flight operations till Thursday as it will take more time to remove the SpiceJet plane that was stuck partially on the runway on Monday, according to officials.

In an embarrassment for the Shiv Sena which controls the Mumbai civic body, waterlogging was witnessed outside party chief Uddhav Thackeray's residence Tuesday as rains pummeled Mumbai overnight.