Rain continued to lash the city and suburbs, leading to continued waterlogging and traffic jams at several places with stray incidents of monsoon-related failures. As rainfall activity enhances, India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mumbai has issued a red alert for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar for Friday. Red alert has also been issued for Friday and Saturday in Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Satara. As per civic officials, in the 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Thursday, the Santacruz weather observatory recorded 125 mm rain while Colaba reported 111 mm rain.

The city has so far received almost 50 per cent of the total rainfall of the season this year. Santacruz observatory, representative of the suburbs, recorded 1,051 mm rainfall until Wednesday while Colaba, which represents the island city, recorded 953 mm rainfall. The city receives an average of 2,260 mm of rainfall yearly.