Mumbai Monsoon: Mumbai has experienced significant disruptions to vehicular movement as a result of severe waterlogging throughout the city as a result of heavy rainfall. Due to extensive waterlogging, the Andheri subway, a crucial transportation link, has been shut down, causing traffic routes to be diverted and causing inconvenience to commuters.
Authorities have decided to temporarily shut down the Andheri subway due to the accumulation of water there. As a direct consequence of this, Andheri Station Road and Western Express Highway are receiving the majority of the traffic on the east side of the Andheri Subway.
Yellow alert
In addition to this, the weather department has issued a yellow alert for Mumbai city.
"Conditions are favourable for the monsoon to move further towards Raigad, Thane, Mumbai and Palghar. Monsoon is likely to reach Mumbai by June 24," said IMD Mumbai earlier. Mumbai normally receives monsoon in the second week of June.
Monsoon reached coastal Ratnagiri on June 11
S G Kamble, head of the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) Mumbai, had said, "The monsoon reached coastal Ratnagiri on June 11, but it was unable to make any further progress due to cyclone Biparjoy, which made landfall near Jakhau on the Kutch coast of Gujarat last Thursday."
“Now conditions are becoming favourable for its further progress and it is likely to hit Mumbai over the weekend between June 23-25,” Kamble said.
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