Mumbai Rains Highlights: Schools To Remain Closed On August 19; IMD Changes Alert To Yellow As Rains Settle

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Here is a quick wrap up of Mumbai rains on August 18:

• IMD issues red alert for Mumbai

• Waterlogging reported across several regions in Mumbai

• Skynet AVM says rains to worsen over the next 48 hours

• Mumbai receives over 170 mm rainfall in one day

• Mumbai crosses monthly rainfall average in just three days

• Cops rescue children from stranded school bus

• Waterlogging in railway tracks

• Nine flights abort landing in Mumbai

• Wall collapsed in Chembur over seven huts

• Local trains face up to 20-30 minutes of delay, metro runs without problem

• BMC shuts schools and colleges for Aug 19, that is, Tuesday

• Six lakes supplying water to Mumbai overflow

Heavy rains wreaked havoc across several states on Monday with Maharashtra being the worst-hit where seven people lost their lives, over 200 people were stranded and five reported missing prompting authorities to deploy the Army for rescue efforts.

Multiple landslides in Himachal Pradesh led to closure of nearly 400 roads.

In the cloudburst-hit village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, two more bodies were recovered from the debris taking the death toll in the August 14 disaster to 63, as a search operation continued for the fifth day despite intermittent rains.

The Indian Meteorological Department has changed its warning from red to yellow for Mumbai city, suburbs and Thane as downpour settles.