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Mumbai: Watch the high tides

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 11:57 AM

Mumbai: Watch the high tides

Mumbai, July 10: Mumbai City has been witnessed the Heavy rains in recent time, the entire city has been flooded with heavy rainfall. There are huge tides on the Mumbai coast. In the last 24 hours, the city of Mumbai recorded 165.8 cm rain. Around 184.3 cm washed out in Mumbai suburban areas, officials said.

The IMD officials said this is the record rainfall since five years until July 9. The average rainfall in this season is more than half.

In this regard, Government schools are closed. Mumbai's pervasive Dabbawalas, the tiffin careers of the city, have suspended their work on Tuesday in entire city.

"We did not collect the tiffins today (Tuesday), because of the water logging across the city. Our people find hard to wade through their cycle in knee deep water," Mumbai Dabbawalas Association's spokesperson Subhash Talekar said.

The India Meterological Department has predicted "heavy to very heavy rains" at isolated places in Mumbai for Tuesday.

The Western Railway has suspended AC local train services in Mumbai in view of the heavy rainfall and the waterlogging at Nallasopara station.

Around 300 flights were delayed for departure and arrival the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai due to heavy rains in the city in the last 24 hours.

According to the official website of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, a total of 162 flights were delayed during departure and 134 were late for arrival on Monday. On Sunday, over 400 flights were reportedly delayed due to bad weather conditions in and around the city.