Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Mumbai Heavy Rains with High Tide

Heavy rains coupled with strong winds lashed Mumbai and its suburbs on Wednesday, disrupting air and rail traffic and leading to water logging in many areas. The city received 60.77 mm , Colaba in south Mumbai received 78.6 mm and suburban Santacruz received 95.0 mm, the MET department said.

The BMC has alerted a high tide of 4.70 metres at 1521 hours on Wednesday.“Any tide above 4.5 metres is coupled with heavy rains and is a matter of concern.

On July 26, 2005, Mumbai saw unprecedented floods as 944 mm of rainfall coincided with a 4.48 m tide.

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