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The climate of Mumbai is tropical, with defined wet and dry seasons ( Köppen: Aw / Am ). The mean annual temperature is 27.7 °C or 81.9 °F. Average annual rainfall is 2,213.4 millimetres or 87 inches in Colaba, which represents South Mumbai and 2,502.3 millimetres or 99 inches in Santacruz, which represents central and suburban Mumbai. [ 1]
2019 Pune flood. / 18.5248917°N 73.7228778°E / 18.5248917; 73.7228778. Between 25–28 September 2019, Pune, India, and its division received a heavy amount of rainfall which caused flash flooding. In addition to people lost to these floods, other rain-related incidents such as collapsed compound walls of buildings have killed at ...
The 2005 Maharashtra floods impacted many parts of the Indian state of Maharashtra including large areas of the metropolis Mumbai, a city located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, on the Western coast of India, in which approximately 1,094 people died. It occurred just one month after the June 2005 Gujarat floods.
From the Times of India today: Mumbai and the entire sea-kissing Konkan strip are expected to receive more than their normal share of rain this season, while Nashik, Kolhapur and Nagpur districts are likely to be lashed by occasionally heavy rains, according to a scientific study by the Pune-based Agriculture College affiliated to the Mahatma Phule Agriculture University in Ahmednagar.
Mumbai ( / mʊmˈbaɪ / ⓘ, Marathi: [ˈmumbəi], ISO: Muṁbaī; formerly known as Bombay[ a]) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore ). [ 20] Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the ...
The Times of India summarised the cause of MNS's attacks—"There's a method in MNS's madness in attacking north Indians in Mumbai though, howsoever flawed it might be. Raj believes his cousin and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray has been wooing the people from Bihar and UP—through a campaign he began back in 2005 with the inclusive call of Mee Mumbaikar—as his party's vote-bank.
On 30 July 2014, a landslide occurred in the village of Malin in the Ambegaon taluka of the Pune district in Maharashtra, India. The landslide, which hit early in the morning while residents were asleep, [ 3] was believed to have been caused by a burst of heavy rainfall, and killed at least 151 people. [ 4] Rains continued after the landslide ...
It is about 23 km (14 mi) from Lonavala, 87 km (54 mi) from the city of Pune and 120 km (75 mi) from the city Mumbai. [2] The township is connected by road from Lonavala. The township has an airstrip that stopped functioning in late 2016. [2] It has an average annual rainfall of 4,000 mm (160 in) from June to September.