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Informist, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025

--IMD: See extremely heavy rain over parts of Mumbai till Wednesday
--IMD: See extremely heavy rain over parts of central Maharashtra till Wed

MUMBAI – Extremely heavy rainfall is likely to continue battering parts of the Konkan coast, including Mumbai, till Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department said Tuesday. The city and its neighbouring areas have witnessed incessant rainfall since the late hours of Saturday evening, with the spread and intensity of the showers rising from Monday due to a combination of multiple weather systems looming over the region.

Extremely heavy rainfall is also likely over parts of central Maharashtra till Wednesday, the department said. Heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied by thunder, lightning, and gusty winds with speeds reaching 40-50 km per hour is expected over most parts of Maharashtra till Wednesday, it said.

The weather department has issued a red alert for the Konkan coast and Marathwada till Wednesday, and for Vidarbha Tuesday. A red alert, the highest level of weather warning, indicates rainfall exceeding 204.5 millimetres in 24 hours.

A low pressure area, which had formed over the Bay of Bengal a few days ago, intensified into a depression and crossed the Odisha coast to move inland Monday, the weather bureau said. The movement of the system strengthened the monsoon westerlies along the Konkan coast, pulling them inland and causing a rise in intensity of rainfall over Mumbai and the rest of the state.

The movement of the monsoon trough is also bringing heavy rainfall to the region. An upper air cyclonic circulation currently lies over the northeast Arabian Sea and adjoining Gujarat while an offshore trough at mean sea level now runs from south Gujarat to the north Kerala coast, the department said. The convergence of these weather systems over the city and the state has also contributed to the rise in rainfall over the region.

The agricultural meteorology division of the department has asked farmers in Konkan and the ghat areas of central Maharashtra to drain out excess water from rice fields. It has also advised farmers in the state to prevent waterlogging in ragi, turmeric, groundnut, urad, moong, soybean, cotton, tur, bajra, and sugarcane fields and in vegetable and fruit orchards.

Though there are media reports of crop losses in the interior parts of Maharashtra, local traders from the region deny this. "There are no major kharif crop losses in Maharashtra," said Ankit Kedia, a trader from Akola. "If anything has been damaged, it is a few areas which touch water bodies such as rivers, which have overflown and flooded the fields. This is a usual phenomenon and there are no signs of massive crop damage due to heavy rainfall." 

In the past 24 hours, multiple weather stations across the city and its suburbs have recorded more than 120 millimetres of rainfall, with the Kandivali and Dadar stations recording more than 300 millimetres of rain, data from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation showed. From 0830 IST Sunday to 0830 IST Tuesday, the city's Santa Cruz station has recorded more than 337 millimetres of rain.

The civic body had declared a holiday for all schools, colleges, government, and semi-government offices Tuesday. The incessant downpour has also restricted rail, road, and air travel, with the authorities suspending suburban train movement on the Central Railway earlier in the day. Intense rainfall has also caused the Mithi river, which passes through the city, to overflow, forcing the evacuation of many citizens in its neighbourhood. Widespread infrastructure damage and loss of life have also been reported across Maharashtra, according to media reports.  End

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

Reported by Shreya Shetty

Edited by Rajeev Pai

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