Due to the IMD's red signal, all schools and colleges in Mumbai would be closed on Thursday

 

Mumbai Municipal Corporation said on Thursday that all schools and colleges will be closed on Thursday due to the city's expected exceptionally heavy rains. The declaration followed the India Meteorological Department's upgrade of Mumbai's "orange" alert to "red," which foresaw extremely heavy rain falling in the city and its outskirts starting at 8 p.m. today and lasting until Thursday afternoon.

The BMC announced that all elementary, intermediate, and higher secondary schools, as well as colleges, in the city and suburbs of Mumbai, will be closed on July 27, 2023, in accordance with the order of municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal.

The BMC urged residents to remain vigilant and heed any guidance given by the authorities.

Since 12 o'clock, the city has seen heavy to very strong rains in several locations. Rainfall totaled an average of 76.45mm in the city over a 10-hour period that ended at 6 p.m. Mumbai's western suburbs saw rainfall totals of 70.43mm, compared to an average rainfall of 58.01mm in the city's eastern suburbs.

The red alert issued by the weather department prompted officials in the Raigad district to proclaim a holiday for all district schools and colleges till Thursday. According to officials cited by PTI, the district has already received 64% of the usual rainfall for this monsoon season.

The district saw an average of 104 mm of rain in the twenty-four hours leading up to Wednesday morning at 10 O'clock.