Not Monsoon Yet But Mumbai Roads Flooded, Rail, Air Traffic Hit: 10 Facts

Monsoons played truant in Mumbai today, but the build-up continued. Heavy rains since morning flooded roads, delayed trains and diverted at least one flight. Navy personnel will be posted from tonight in parts of the city to help with the operations. The met department has said these are pre-monsoon showers and the monsoon will hit sometime over the week-end. Disaster...

Thanks to a massively viral video, a Mumbai cop is being applauded on social media for managing traffic while standing in heavy rain.

With the India Meteorological Department or IMD predicting "heavy to very heavy" rainfall along the Maharashtra coast, including Mumbai, over this weekend, the Mumbai civic body is preparing itself to prevent and tackle monsoon-related disasters.

Mumbai got relief from scorching heat today as rains hit the city.

Heavy rain in Mumbai has delayed several trains and a Jet Airways flight from London has been diverted to Ahmedabad, reports said on Thursday.

Mumbai is set to face heavy rain with the weatherman expecting monsoon to hit the city in 48 hours, at least three days before schedule. The weather office has predicted "really heavy rains" that will "affect normal life" in Mumbai beginning Thursday.

For the second time in two days, heavy pre-monsoon rains, accompanied by thunder and lightning, lashed Mumbai on Monday night, hitting flight operations and disrupting local trains, officials said.

Monsoon is likely to reach Maharashtra and Goa in the next two days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said today, with a private weather forecasting agency predicting sustained heavy rains later this week.

At least 13 people have lost their lives in different incidents, mostly by drowning, in the first monsoon weekend in the past 72 hours.

Heavy rains coupled with strong winds lashed several parts of Mumbai and the neighbouring areas on Saturday. While the onset of the monsoons in Mumbai was said to be from June 10, the Indian Meteorological Department had hinted at an early arrival.

Three people, including two children, died due to electrocution as pre-monsoon showers hit Mumbai on Saturday evening. Heavy rain caused water-logging and traffic jams in some parts of the city, slowing down evening rush hour commuters but sharply bringing down the temperature. Thunderstorm and strong winds also accompanied rainfall in many areas of Thane, Palghar, Ra...

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Cyclone Ockhi, which was expected to make landfall near Gujarat's Surat late on Tuesday, has weakened and may not hit the coast as predicted earlier, the Meteorological Centre has said. The cyclonic storm which gradually turned into a "depression" may have dissipated into the Arabian sea, say authorities. Although the worse is over but Gujarat continues to be on alert...

Originating near Sri Lanka over the Bay of Bengal on November 29, Cyclone Ockhi moved over the Arabian Sea via Kanyakumari, triggering heavy rains and high speed wind.

Cyclone Ockhi that held the "very severe" status has weakened into a "severe" cyclone and will make landfall near Surat and the Gulf of Khambat in Gujarat as a deep depression early on Wednesday, the Met Office has said

Cyclone Ockhi, which was expected to make landfall near Gujarat's Surat, is gradually weakening and may not hit the coast as predicted earlier, the Meteorological Centre has said. The cyclonic storm has turned into a "deep depression" and may hit south Gujarat only as a "depression" late tonight, according to an official statement. Gujarat is on alert, with rescue and...

Rains started in Mumbai this afternoon as Cyclone Ockhi, after causing devastation in Kerala, crept towards the Maharashtra-Gujarat coast. The meteorological office predicts that it will weaken before it hits and settle over Gulf of Kambhat near Surat as a deep depression by Tuesday night. Schools in four districts of Maharashtra, and the Mumbai Metropolitan area, hav...

Rain and rumours have been blamed for the stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that killed 23 people last month. But railway officials who took 18 months to call for bids to build the new foot over-bridge at Elphinstone station may not be off the hook yet.

The stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that left 23 dead last month has been blamed on rain and rumours by a safety committee of the railway ministry, which does not refer to any official negligence.

Residents of Navi Mumbai and Uran have been seeing black rain for the past two days. While this may be a shocking sight, as per the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board this may have some connection with the recent fire at Butcher Island.

Passengers from Lucknow flying into Kolkata have ended up at Varanasi. Those from Bengaluru have ended up at Guwahati and a flight from Mumbai ended up in Dhaka.

Heavy rains affected the flight operations at the Mumbai airport on Sunday, second time in less than a month, causing delays.

Mumbai has been hit hard by heavy rain and thunderstorm this evening.

Monsoon watchers have for long been puzzled on what could be the reason for increased extreme floods that take place in India from Mumbai to all the way to Guwahati in the northeast -- since monsoon is actually weakening due to climate change