Rain lashed elements of Mumbai on Sunday morning, with the Indian Meteorological Division forecasting heavy rainfall within the state for the following few days. Visuals from town confirmed a heavy site visitors jam within the metropolis because of the rain.
In the meantime, the Indian Meteorological Division in a publish on social media X said that the melancholy over Madhya Maharashtra had moved almost east-northeastwards with a pace of 20 kilometers per hour over the past six hours.
“The Despair over Madhya Maharashtra moved almost east-northeastwards with a pace of 20 kmph throughout previous 6 hours, and lay centred at 2330 Hrs IST of yesterday, the twenty fourth Might 2025 over Madhya Maharashtra close to latitude 17.5° N & longitude 75.3° E, about 100 km northeast of Sangli(Maharashtra), 70 km west-southwest of Sholapur (Maharashtra), 110 km southwest of Osmanbad (Marathwada) and 240 km west of Bidar (N. I. Karnataka),” the publish learn.
Additional, IMD has predicted the motion of the melancholy east-northeastwards throughout Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada and the Northern inside Karnataka.
“It is vitally prone to proceed to maneuver almost east-northeastwards throughout south Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada & North Inside Karnataka and weaken steadily right into a well-marked low stress space in the course of the subsequent 12 hours,” the publish additional learn.
Earlier on Might 23, Mumbai obtained mild showers, as IMD forecasted usually cloudy skies with heavy rain.
“Town is prone to expertise ‘usually cloudy sky with heavy rain’ in the present day”, as per the Indian Meteorological Division.
Earlier, an enormous site visitors jam was reported on the Bhiwandi-Wada highway in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Thursday, following heavy rainfall late Wednesday night time that severely broken the highway floor.
The downpour created massive potholes and considerably slowed site visitors motion, with the state of affairs additional aggravated by ongoing highway building work.
The site visitors congestion prolonged for almost 7 to eight kilometres, with many commuters stranded for over 4 hours.
The IMD has forecast continued heavy to very heavy rainfall in elements of the west coast, together with Konkan, Goa, Karnataka, and Kerala, over the following few days.
