Mumbai: Heavy winds, over 500mm rain in 72 hrs, but it wasn’t a cyclone

It was not just an August record that the heavy rain in the city notched up on Wednesday. The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Colaba observatory recorded 331.8mm of rainfall in a span of 24 hours between 8am on August 5 (Wednesday) and 8am on August 6 (Thursday), which is the second highest seasonal rain after 575.6mm reported 46 years ago, on July 5, 1974.