Sizeable dust storms have hit various suburbs within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) such as Kalyan-Dombivli twin-city municipality in the Thane area, Panvel, which is located in Navi Mumbai and other nearby areas, as evidenced by video footage captured by netizens on Saturday.
User Vidyasagar Jagadeesan captured footage of a "sandstorm-like situation" at Panvel and shared it on 'X', depicting gales of dusting swirling around the locality and posted the video at 4:12 p.m.
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A few minutes earlier, another user Subhash Jagtap, posted footage at 4:01 p.m. of the same storm in Panvel, noting how it had caused visibility issues, darkness, traffic slowdowns and widespread confusion among citizens, with sunlight being blocked out by the storm.
Prominent local weather tracking account Mumbai Rains also noted dust storm-like conditions posting footage that exhibited the same at 3:50 p.m. while cautioning interior MMR residents to stay indoors for the next one to two hours. They asked Mumbai City and neigbouring suburbs to be on Standby alert.
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Netizen Shreekumar Yadav called for construction reforms in their post capturing the dust storms and the surrounding building affected by it in Panvel and tagged the Panvel Municipal Coroporation and news outlets AajTak and APB Majha TV to boost visibility regarding the issue.
Mumbai Rains also posted video footage from user Hitesh Bhanushali of a "powerful dust storm in Dombivili at 4:30 p.m. and remarked that it is expanding to many parts of the MMR region.
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