Country’s monsoon tracker: Red alert in Mumbai today, schools and colleges closed, 4 dead, 14 flights diverted; Heavy rain warning in 11 states
There is a red alert for heavy rains in entire Maharashtra including Mumbai today. All schools and colleges in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad have been closed. People have been requested to stay indoors. PM Modi’s rally was cancelled due to waterlogging in Sir Parshuram College Ground in Pune.
4 people died due to heavy rains in Mumbai on Wednesday. A woman drowned in a drain in Andheri. More than 3.9 inches of rain in around five hours in the evening turned the roads into rivers. Vehicles were stuck in several kilometer-long traffic jams till late night. 14 flights were diverted at Mumbai airport. Local trains also ran late.
In Surat, Gujarat, 2 inches of rain in 2 hours on Wednesday caused flooding in the canals of Kadarsa and Sangrampura areas. Children were trapped in schools. The fire department rescued the children. The civil hospital was also flooded. This caused a lot of trouble to the patients. Rain is expected in Gujarat for the next 5 days.
It rained on Wednesday in 21 districts of Madhya Pradesh including Bhopal and Indore. Khandwa received 2.3 inches of rain in 9 hours. Due to rain in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, many areas were flooded with two to three feet of water. Water entered the registry office.
Monsoon withdrawal unlikely in Pune-Mumbai before 10-12 October IMD said that the southwest monsoon starts withdrawing from Rajasthan on 17 September, which this time happened on 23 September i.e. a week late. Due to this, monsoon is unlikely to end in Pune and Mumbai before 10-12 October. Usually, monsoon withdrawal from Maharashtra happens around 5 October.
IMD scientist SD Sanap told TOI that Maharashtra will receive good rainfall from September 26 due to the formation of a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal and its possibility of moving northwest. Maharashtra and Goa are likely to receive heavy rains till September 28.
According to IMD, rain has started in Maharashtra after a long gap this monsoon season. In such a situation, it would be too early to predict the end of monsoon from Maharashtra in October.
Heavy rain alert in 7 states on 27 September
- According to the weather department, heavy to very heavy (12 cm) rains may occur over East Uttar Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Konkan-Goa, Madhya Maharashtra and Gujarat.
- Heavy rain (7 cm) alert has been issued for Uttarakhand, West Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.
Madhya Pradesh has once again become wet due to the system of heavy rain. On Wednesday, rain fell in 21 districts including Bhopal, Indore. On Thursday, there is an alert of heavy rain in 16 districts including Jabalpur, Sagar. Bhopal, Indore-Ujjain may receive light rain. According to the Meteorological Department, this is the fourth strong system of September.
