Red alert in Mumbai: IMD warns of extremely heavy rain; train services disrupted
Traffic has been diverted in these places, including Western Express Highway in Santacruz. Central and Western Railways reported delay in several train services
Mumbai and its surrounding districts, including Thane, Palghar, Raigada, and Ratnagiri, are experiencing intense rainfall, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red alert for extremely heavy showers in isolated areas, with several parts of Mumbai receiving over 100 mm of rain in the 24 hours leading up to Wednesday morning, causing significant waterlogging in low-lying areas like the Andheri subway and affecting traffic and train services. The Powai Lake has overflowed, contributing to the Mithi river, while the water stock in Mumbai's drinking water reservoirs is critically low at 7.18% of total capacity compared to last year. Tragically, two deaths have been reported: a 51-year-old man in a balcony collapse in Walkeshwar and an 11-year-old boy in a tree collapse on a school bus, with four other children injured. Meanwhile, surrounding districts like Pune, Sindhudurg, Satara, and Kolhapur are under an orange alert with predictions of heavy to very heavy rains, thunderstorms, and gusty winds.
Mumbai and its surrounding districts, including Thane, Palghar, Raigada, and Ratnagiri, are experiencing intense rainfall, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red alert for extremely heavy showers in isolated areas, with several parts of Mumbai receiving over 100 mm of rain in the 24 hours leading up to Wednesday morning, causing significant waterlogging in low-lying areas like the Andheri subway and affecting traffic and train services. The Powai Lake has overflowed, contributing to the Mithi river, while the water stock in Mumbai's drinking water reservoirs is critically low at 7.18% of total capacity compared to last year. Tragically, two deaths have been reported: a 51-year-old man in a balcony collapse in Walkeshwar and an 11-year-old boy in a tree collapse on a school bus, with four other children injured. Meanwhile, surrounding districts like Pune, Sindhudurg, Satara, and Kolhapur are under an orange alert with predictions of heavy to very heavy rains, thunderstorms, and gusty winds.
Mumbai and its surrounding districts, including Thane, Palghar, Raigada, and Ratnagiri, are experiencing intense rainfall, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red alert for extremely heavy showers in isolated areas, with several parts of Mumbai receiving over 100 mm of rain in the 24 hours leading up to Wednesday morning, causing significant waterlogging in low-lying areas like the Andheri subway and affecting traffic and train services. The Powai Lake has overflowed, contributing to the Mithi river, while the water stock in Mumbai's drinking water reservoirs is critically low at 7.18% of total capacity compared to last year. Tragically, two deaths have been reported: a 51-year-old man in a balcony collapse in Walkeshwar and an 11-year-old boy in a tree collapse on a school bus, with four other children injured. Meanwhile, surrounding districts like Pune, Sindhudurg, Satara, and Kolhapur are under an orange alert with predictions of heavy to very heavy rains, thunderstorms, and gusty winds.
With intense rains lashing Mumbai and its neighbouring districts Thane, Palghar, Raigada and Ratnagiri, IMD has issued a red alert, warning of extremely heavy rainfall at isolated areas in the region.
Several areas in Mumbai saw more than 100 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours ending 8 am on Wednesday. This has caused waterlogging in the Andheri subway and other low-lyiing localities. Worli and Navi Mumbai also witnessed waterlogging.
Traffic has been diverted in these places, including Western Express Highway in Santacruz. Central and Western Railways reported delay in several train services. The Harbour line services were disrupted for a while after an overhead wire broke.
Powai Lake, one of the artificial reservoirs in under Brihanmumbai Municipal Corportation (BMC), started overflowing around 5.30 am in the morning, as the water flow exceeded its storage capacity of 545 crore litres.
The excess water from the lake flows into the Mithi river, which drains into the Arabian Sea at Mahim. The water stock in the seven reservoirs that supply drinking water to Mumbai stood at 7.18 per cent of their total capacity at 6 am on Wednesday, compared to 41.17 per cent on July 1, 2025.
A 51-year-old man died after a part of a third-floor balcony of a building collapsed in Walkeshwar area in Mumbai on Tuesday midnight. Identified as Santosh Ramchandra Bharaskar, he was rushed to the state-run JJ Hospital where doctors declared him "brought dead".
This comes a day after an 11-year-old boy died after a large peepal tree collapsed on their school bus on Tuesday afternoon. Four other children were also injured.
The surrounding districts like Pune, Sindhudurg, Satara and Kolhapur were put under orange alert as the Met department predicted heavy to very heavy rains, thunderstorms and gusty winds.