Water Level In Four Mumbai Lakes Now At 100% As Catchment Areas Receive Heavy Rains

Mumbai lakes water level today: As of 6 a.m. on Thursday, the total water stock in all the seven lakes was 66.77% of their total capacity.

Mumbai is bracing for heavy rain today with residents being requested to stay indoors, a day after continuous downpour led to waterlogging and the cancellation of at least 11 flights.

In a sigh of relief amid heavy downpours, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation declared that all the schools and colleges in its area will operate normally on Friday.

The police have asked residents of Mumbai to stay indoors till 8.30 am today after the weather office forecast heavy rain in the coastal city.

Four people have died - three were electrocuted - in Pune, two drowned after falling into Thane's Barvi Dam, and a red alert has been declared for Mumbai and Palghar after heavy rainfall, overnight and this morning, battered Maharashtra.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has also requested all citizens to avoid stepping out if not necessary and has asked them to cooperate.

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IMD has issued a 'Red' alert for the city and neighbouring Thane, Raigad and Palghar districts predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places with extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places.

IMD has issued a 'Red' alert for the city and neighbouring Thane, Raigad and Palghar districts predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places with extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places.

The halt on the 10% water cut will be effective from July 29, 2024.

The halt on the 10% water cut will be effective from July 29, 2024.

Last year, Modak-Sagar, built on the Vaitarna river in the neighbouring Thane district, overflowed on July 27 at 10.52 p.m.

Multiple flights have been delayed and cancelled due to heavy rain in Mumbai. Several areas have been flooded and two out of the seven lakes that supply water to the city are overflowing

Three men died of electrocution in Maharashtra's Pune in the early hours of Thursday while trying to move their handcart that got submerged due to heavy rains, police said.

Heavy rain has led to waterlogging in several areas in Pune and Kolhapur and paralysed normal life. Schools have been shut and scores of residential apartments in Pune's Pimpri Chinchwad area have been flooded

This is the highest single-day jump in the water stock of the lake levels this season so far. On this day in 2023, it was 50.18% and 87.45% in 2022.

The Andheri Subway in Mumbai has been closed for vehicular movement following waterlogging from the persistent rainfall.

Tulsi Lake started overflowing on Saturday in the wake of heavy rains in its catchment over the past few days.

Tulsi Lake started overflowing on Saturday in the wake of heavy rains in its catchment over the past few days.

Heavy rains continued to lash Mumbai on the second consecutive day on Monday, with some areas receiving up to 34 mm of rainfall in just one hour in the morning.

Heavy rains continued to lash Mumbai on the second consecutive day on Monday, with some areas receiving up to 34 mm of rainfall in just one hour in the morning.

Following heavy rains that pounded Mumbai and its suburbs, flight operations have been affected, resulting in the cancellation and diversion of some of the flights.

Mumbai and its suburbs received over 100 mm of rainfall in 12 hours till 8 PM on Sunday, inundating roads in many areas, diverting flights, and briefly affecting local train traffic between Dadar and Matunga stations due to water-logging.

Some roads in Mumbai are flooded after rain, and the weather office has forecast more rain today in the crowded, humid city.