India’s financial capital Mumbai is struggling with rain. The speed of the city has stopped due to the continuous rains of the last three days. Somewhere the roads drowned, then local trains came to a standstill. School-colleges have to be closed and lakes are in spate.
322 mm rain in 24 hours
India meteorology department According to, the Borivali fire station of western suburbs recorded the highest 322 mm of rain in 24 hours. 294 mm of water rained in Chincholi and 276 mm in Kandivali. Central and Eastern suburbs also did not lag behind. Vikhroli received 232 mm, Kurla 163 mm and Mulund recorded 94 mm of rainfall.
The rain in South Mumbai was comparatively low. Colaba recorded 124 mm rainfall, 97 mm in Malabar Hill and 117 mm at Nariman Point. It makes it clear that the suburbs of Mumbai are always more vulnerable to heavy rain.
Local stalled, people homeless
On Tuesday, the average figures of about 80 stations in the city show that the rains in many areas were above 200 mm. As a result, the drainage system overflowed and the railway tracks were submerged. The water level of Mitty river reached 3.9 meters, due to which 350 people were evacuated from Kurla area. Not only this, local train services had to be stopped on Harbor and Main Line.
Seeing the situation deteriorating, BMC issued a red alert and government offices, schools and colleges were closed in Thane, Palghar and Raigad along with Mumbai.
25 years trend: sometimes drought, sometimes flood
Statistics from Santa Cruz Weather Station (Central IMD Station of Mumbai) show that the rain of August has changed considerably in the last 25 years.
2005: Flood year, 527 mm of rain in August
2020: Record 1240 mm – three times more
2021: 338 mm
2022: 552 mm
2023: 177 mm
2025 (so far): 792 mm (two weeks still left)
Mumbai’s most terrible day was 27 July 2005, when 944.2 mm of rain in just 24 hours crippled the entire city.
August rain: sometimes 22 mm, sometimes 331 mm
The rain of August has been very uncertain in the last decade.
6 August 2015: only 22.3 mm
30 August 2017: 331.4 mm
4 August 2019: 216.4 mm
4 August 2020: 268.6 mm
It shows how much monsoon mood is changing.
Why it rains so much rain?
According to meteorologists, the offshore channel on the coast of Maharashtra and the moisture drawn from the Arabian Sea is continuously coming towards Mumbai. The Lo-Rest zone made in Central India from above is pushing this moisture towards the west. This is the reason that Mumbai is continuously facing heavy rains.
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