“Pained to know about the loss of lives in Malad Wall Collapse incidence. More rainsThe weather department has forecast that the city and its suburbs will receive heavy to very heavy rain with isolated spells of extremely heavy rain in the next 24 hours. It primarily indicates short bursts of extremely heavy rain,” KS Hosalikar, India Meteorological Department’s deputy director general (western region), said. Ever since the heavy rain spell began on June 28 in Mumbai, so far the total rainfall recorded has been 794.8 mm. “On Monday, we had issued rainfall warning of heavy to very heavy rain in some areas but it was not anticipated that extremely heavy rain would occur.

Source: Hindustan Times July 02, 2019 03:11 UTC