Pune Mumbai Rain Dwell Information: Mumbai and Pune face rain crimson alerts until 8.30 am Friday.
Mumbai:
4 individuals have died – three had been electrocuted – in Pune, two drowned after falling into Thane’s Barvi Dam, and a crimson alert has been declared for Mumbai and Palghar after heavy rainfall, in a single day and this morning, battered the three cities and different elements of Maharashtra Thursday.
The observatory in Mumbai’s Santacruz has recorded over 1,500 mm of rain to date this month, making it the second wettest July within the metropolis’s historical past. Town groaned below 1,771 mm final July.
Town 122.1 mm (between Santacruz and Colaba) between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm right this moment.
Mumbai Rains
The climate division has declared a crimson alert for Mumbai until 8.30 am Friday.
4 rivers within the state, together with the Kundalika and Amba, are flowing above the hazard mark and threaten to destroy villages and settlements alongside their banks. As well as, the Mithi River, which is adjoining to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport, flowing only a metre under that mark.
Flight ops on the airport have been affected by the rain; IndiGo and SpiceJet warned passengers of “periodic delays in flight schedules, and Air India supplied full refunds for cancelled flights.
READ | Flight Ops Hit In Mumbai Due To Heavy Rain, Components Of Metropolis Waterlogged
Movies and images shared on-line confirmed in depth flooding in elements of the town.
One video exhibits Mumbai’s iconic Marine Drive shrouded in a gray fog of rain.
VIDEO | Excessive tides had been seen in sea at Marine Drive in Mumbai this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/RIxHqsuyi4
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Excessive waves have been reported alongside Juhu Seashore, prompting police and native officers to warn individuals to steer clear of the shoreline.
Pune Rain Information
Like Mumbai, Pune additionally faces a crimson alert until Friday morning.
The Military has been known as in to assist catastrophe response groups, with authorities reporting extreme flooding in areas like Ekta Nagri and Vitthal Nagar and in housing societies in Kalyaninagar.
Pune residents being rescued by catastrophe response personnel.
Town has additionally skilled widespread energy outages; officers instructed The Instances of India in 90 per cent of those circumstances provide had been switched off to keep away from water-related electrical mishaps.
Components of Pune metropolis had been with out electrical energy for over 12 hours, reviews mentioned.
Colleges and faculties within the metropolis had been ordered to shut for the day.
Movies shared by information company PTI confirmed NDRF (Nationwide Catastrophe Response Drive) personnel rowing inflatable life rafts by way of busy streets-turned-raging rivers to evacuate individuals.
#WATCH | Pune: The hearth division rescued 70 stranded individuals from the Nimbjanagar space of Pune metropolis earlier right this moment, as the town obtained heavy rainfall.
Visuals Supply: Pune Hearth Division pic.twitter.com/NLxZmLEnSV
— ANI (@ANI) July 25, 2024
Different visuals present closely flooded streets and, in a picture that underlines the dimensions of the floods, the Morya Gosavi Ganpati temple in Pimpri-Chinchwad is sort of absolutely submerged.
VIDEO | After the sudden rise of water in Pavana river flowing by way of Pimpri Chinchwad metropolis, the one bridge over Pavana river close to Birla Hospital has been fully closed for site visitors as water has began flowing over it. The Pimpri Chinchwad Visitors Police Division has… pic.twitter.com/72KR1KqaKa
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Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar visited a number of flood-affected areas and in addition met senior police officers to assessment and coordinate rescue and aid efforts.
Lavasa Landslide
A landslide was reported from Lavasa, a personal metropolis about 65 km from Pune. Visuals confirmed a piece of a street fully washed away. Three to 4 persons are believed to be trapped.
NDRF personnel working to free individuals caught within the Lavasa landslide.
A crew of NDRF officers is on website.
NDTV Marathi has reported some bungalows within the space had been destroyed.
Maharashtra Floods Information
In Raigad district, a bridge over a small stream within the Mahad Industrial Growth space was washed away. Officers mentioned the construction was not utilized by vehicular site visitors.
Six gates of the Koyna Dam in Satara district, one of many largest within the state, had been cranked open by simply 18 inches this night, and over 11,000 cusecs (or over 3.2 lakh litres) of water got here gushing out.
Sources instructed NDTV the gates shall be opened once more at 7 pm, stating controlling water stage within the dam is essential for structural integrity whilst influx will increase as a consequence of steady rain.
Alerts have been sounded for Raigad and different districts.
A flood risk hovers over the town of Badlapur, which is lower than 60 km from Mumbai.
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That is because of the Ulhas River flowing above the hazard stage. Water has already entered low-lying elements of the town and residents of those neighbourhoods have been evacuated.
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