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.
