COURTESY TOI AUG 6

City gets 294mm rain in 12 hrs, breaks 46-yr record for 24 hrs
Flooding, 112 Tree Falls, Six House Crashes
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mumbai:

South Mumbai was battered by heavy rain and lashing winds on Wednesday as unprecedented incidents of flooding were witnessed at several key spots with the Indian Meteorological Department’s Colaba centre recording 293.8 mm of rain in 12 hours—incidentally, the highest August rain received in a period of 24 hours since 1974.

On Wednesday, it was the island city that bore the most brunt, as IMD’s Santacruz centre recorded 103mm rain for the 12 hours ending 8.30pm, the same period in which South Mumbai received record rainfall