Mumbai Rains: IMD issues orange alert, NDRF to place 15 teams in coastal areas
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an ‘orange alert’ for Mumbai, and neighbouring Thane, Palghar and Raigad districts, warning of very heavy to extraordinarily heavy rainfall at remoted locations.
Earlier on Wednesday, the south-west monsoon set in over Mumbai and its neighbouring areas,as heavy rains lashed the town and suburbs since early morning. The first rains of this 12 months’s monsoon season in Mumbai triggered water-logging in varied elements of the town, prompting the site visitors police to shut 4 subways and forcing motorists to abandon their automobiles on roads.
The heavy downpour additionally disrupted native prepare companies, that are operating just for personnel engaged in well being and different important companies, and are out of certain for common commuters in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While there have been fewer automobiles on the town roads amid the downpour, motorcyclists and different two-wheeler riders have been unable to manoeuvre their automobiles at a number of the flooded locations. The site visitors police closed Milan, Khar, Andheri and Malad subways for motorists due to water-logging at these locations.
The metropolis police appealed to Mumbaikars not to step out of their properties unnecessarily and cautioned them in opposition to travelling to a number of the inundated areas.
Mumbai and its suburbs is probably going to expertise extra thunderstorms together with reasonable to intense spells of rainfall.
On Wednesday, suburban prepare companies from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajTerminus (CSMT) to neighbouring Thane and Vashi in Navi Mumbai have been suspended due to water-logging on tracks. Routes of some BEST buses, run by the town civic physique’s transport wing, have been diverted to keep away from flooded streets.
Meanwhile, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) mentioned that the fifth Battalion is prepositioning 15 teams in the coastal area following a requisition from the Maharashtra authorities. NDRF mentioned that 15 teams have been being prepositioned in coastal Maharashtra following the prediction of heavy rain in Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Thane and Palghar districts together with Mumbai. These 15 teams embrace three teams completely deployed in Mumbai.
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