First day of monsoon, Mumbai on its knees as trains, traffic hit (Ld)
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Mumbai, June 9 : The first monsoon rains hit Maharashtra and Mumbai with full fury on Wednesday, disrupting local trains and road traffic, and flooding low-lying areas in the country s commercial capital, officials said here.
According to IMD Mumbai, the city notched record rain for a day in June 280.2 mm in the suburbs and 123 mm in the city in the past 24 hours, with the maximum downpour during the day since 8 a.m.
In the early hours, Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad were clobbered with heavy rain, inundating several low-lying areas, barely a fortnight after the city survived the Cyclone Tauktae devastation.