Mumbai crippled on Day 1 of monsoon, red alert issued 

On just the first day of monsoon on Monday, Mumbai experienced its highest monsoon rainfall in 107 years, causing severe waterlogging and delays in transport.

Southwest Monsoon’s early arrival in Maharashtra’s Mumbai wreaked havoc on the city’s civic infrastructure as roads and tracks got heavily waterlogged across several parts of the city, resulting in trains and flights getting delayed and an underground metro station also getting flooded.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) nowcast at 3 pm showed that an intense spell of rain is very likely at isolated places across the Mumbai district during the next 3-4 hours, accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds in some areas.

• Highest rain in 107 years: Mumbai, India’s financial capital, received 63.5mm rainfall in the past 24 hours, causing waterlogging in at least six places, Maharashtra CMO said on Monday afternoon. The city on Monday recorded its highest rainfall in 107 years on just the first day of monsoon. Eighteen incidents of rain-induced short circuit and five incidents of wall collapse were reported by noon.

• Earliest monsoon arrival in 75 years: According to IMD, this early onset of the Southwest Monsoon marked the earliest arrival of seasonal rain in 75 years in Maharashtra and Mumbai. In Mumbai, monsoon arrived 16 days early. The normal date for monsoon’s arrival in Mumbai is around June