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Mumbai: The Regional Meteorological Centre (Mumbai) on Monday issued an ‘Orange’ alert for several districts of Maharashtra and predicted heavy rains for districts such as Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Pune, Kolhapur, and Satara. These areas are expected to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall till Thursday, July 27.
Mumbai City, which is already facing a waterlogging problem in low-lying areas, is also likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall tomorrow.
Maharashtra | ‘Orange’ alert for heavy to very heavy rainfall issued in Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudrug, Pune, Kolhapur and Satara districts till 27th July; Mumbai also likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall tomorrow: Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai pic.twitter.com/8TZZc8bEBg
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Mumbai city is dealing with heavy traffic jams, waterlogged roads, and delayed local trains due to the incessant rainfalls for the past 2-3 days. Commuters are facing problem hardship because of the delayed local trains and not able to reach their destinations on time. the maximum city witnessed its wettest day of the year with record-breaking rainfall on Saturday.
Yesterday, a part of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway was blocked because of landslide near the Adoshi village in Raigad. Meanwhile, IMD has predicted heavy rainfall in the city tomorrow.
With heavy rainfall tomorrow the city will have severe waterlogging and flood-like situations in low-lying areas.
“The rainfall status observed is that heavy to very heavy rainfall is continuing over Saurashtra-Kutch region, Madhya Maharashtra & Goa also, and coastal Karnataka is having extremely heavy rainfall. But over Gujarat, it has reduced in the last 24 hours, so the flood situation will improve drastically. We have caved the heavy rainfall warning over Konkan Goa including Mumbai and also coastal Karnataka…we have predicted extremely heavy rainfall over Telangana also on 25 and 26..,” RK Jenamani, IMD Scientist said.
Earlier in the day, a man fell into the Ajanta caves in Aurangabad district while he was clicking a selfie. The persons identified as Gopal Chavan hailed from Nandatanda in Soyegaon taluka. He visited the heritage site yesterday. He slipped and fell into the Saptakunda waterfall while taking selfie near the Ajanta view point. Since he knew how to swim, Gopal managed to swim off shore and was later rescued by the authorities.
The NDRF team and other agencies have left the landslide spot at Irshalwadi in Raigad district today after completion of the rescue operation. The rescue operation lasted for four days in which the rescue teams recovered 27 bodies and 57 people are untraceable.
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