Mumbai rains: Disaster management cell announces high tide timings; warns of going to the beach

Following Monday’s continuous downpour, Mumbaikars are expected to have little respite from incessant rains on Tuesday. The BMC’s disaster management cell announced that the city and suburbs will witness intermittent showers.

Officials said that high tide will occur at 11.16 am and will be 4.13 metres; similarly, there will also be high tide at 11.09 pm at 3.46 metres. The city will also witness low tide at of 1.94 metres 5.26 pm

Flight operations at Mumbai airport are on schedule, as are train and metro services in the city. Services of Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro-1 corridor are also normal.

The Southwest Monsoon picked up momentum in Mumbai, bringing heavy showers that claimed four lives in the city and adjoining Thane.

Earlier, Monday was disrupted after heavy rains lashed the metropolis and Thane district throughout the weekend and continued this morning, causing water-logging at several places and slowing the movement of suburban trains, thus causing inconvenience to office-goers.

Two persons were killed last evening when a tree fell on them near Metro Cinema in south Mumbai, said an official from the disaster management unit of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

A 13-year-old boy was killed and his parents were injured when an adjacent wall collapsed on their house at Wadol village in Ambernath taluka of Thane around 2.15 am today, the district civic body's regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said.

"Traffic is moving slow at Khar subway, Malad subway & Andheri subway due to water-logging," Mumbai police tweeted. At around noon, the cops tweeted that both Khar and Milan subway had been opened once again, but cautioned that traffic was moving slowly.

Meanwhile, a huge part of a compound caved-in at Antop Hill area in Wadala. Around 15 cars were damaged with some vehicles getting buried under the debris, an official of the BMC's disaster management cell said.

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