Heavy downpour causes flooding, Tweeple share pictures of rainy day

A bus wades through the water-logged Malad subway. Picture/Satej Shinde

As heavy rains continue to lash Mumbai and its adjoining areas, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a multi-hazard warning for the next 5 days starting July 16. According to IMD, Mumbai suburbs and its surrounding areas are likely to receive intense spells of rainfall in isolated places in the next few hours.

"Intense spells of rain likely to occur at isolated places in the districts of Suburbs of Mumbai, Palghar, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Kohlapur, Aurangabad, Jalna, Parbhani, Nanded, Jalgaon, Dhule, and Nandurbar during next 3 hours," IMD stated.

As heavy rains caused water-logging and traffic jams at several places, Mumbaikars took to Twitter to share pictures and videos of a rainy Thursday. Soon #MumbaiRains and #MumbaiRainsWithMidday started to trend on the micro-blogging site.

Twitter user Weather@chennai said that the rainfall activity in Mumbai will reduce for a while after the evening.

Mid-day lens man Sameer Abedi shared pictures of water-logging from Ghatkopar's LBS road.

Certain routes of BEST buses were diverted due to inundation.

Another Twitter user shared beautiful pictures of Mumbai Rains from across the city. Sharing the pictures the user said, "That's Mumbai in rains for you."

One user shared a video of heavy rainfall in Andheri, while another user shared a stunning video of heavy rains in Bandra and Juhu.

Here are some of the tweets on #MumbaiRains:

Share your rain pictures using #MumbaiRainsWithMidday on Twitter.

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