Mumbai--The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted ‘heavy to very heavy’ rainfall in several parts of Mumbai on Saturday. Friday witnessed heavy showers in the city, inundating several localities and neighbourhoods and throwing rail and road traffic out of gear. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) director V K Rajeev attributed the heavy rainfall to an offshore trough and upper cyclonic circulation over the Arabian Sea.
On Friday, all the three suburban train routes had come to a halt, and severe water-logging was reported at more than 200 locations bringing road traffic to a crawl. The 283 mm rainfall recorded at Santacruz weather station was the highest in 24 hours for June in a decade. The highest June downpour in the last 10 years was 299 mm on June 10, 1991.
INDIAN EXPRESS
