Rush Hour: Mumbai rains break 107-year record for May, Delhi HC summons Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, and more

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Mumbai has received its highest rainfall for the month of May in 107 years. The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert warning of extremely heavy rains in the city. The southwest monsoon arrived in Maharashtra on Sunday, in what was the earliest onset of the season in the state in 35 years.

The department’s Colaba observatory in South Mumbai has logged 295 mm so far this month, surpassing the previous high of 279.4 mm recorded in May 1918.

Operations on Mumbai Metro Line 3, the city’s first fully underground Metro corridor, were partially suspended after heavy rains flooded the under-construction Acharya Atre Chowk underground station. The second phase of the Metro line had been inaugurated just 17 days earlier.

Heavy rainfall also lashed Kerala, prompting the weather agency to issue a red alert for 11 districts. The rains led to several residents being evacuated to relief camps and safer areas in the districts of Wayanad and Kozhikode.

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