BMC bhava, take care: Twitter users joke as rains lash Mumbai

Much needed relief from seething heat and humidity came for Mumbaikars late Saturday evening as several parts of Mumbai as well as adjoining areas began seeing gusty winds, thunderstorm followed by rains.

On Saturday, Mumbai saw the maximum temperature of 35.2 degree Celsius being recorded at Santacruz with humidity of 67 percent while Colaba saw the maximum of 35 degree Celsius with humidity of 80 percent.

“There were good rains witnessed in Badlapur area on Saturday and thunderstorm activity with gusty winds was reported from several parts of Mumbai too post late Saturday evening. This is the result of the huge cloud cover over Mumbai and Konkan area and more rains can be expected soon. Pre-monsoon activity is being witnessed all over Maharashtra though the Southwest Monsoon is still to hit the State,” said an IMD official adding that from June 5 there should be more spurts of rainsin the city.

By around 8pm several parts of the city in eastern as well as western suburbs began receiving rains with gusty winds and thunderstorms. Rains and thunders are being reported from area like Dahisar, Borivali, Kandivali, Powai and parts of Andheri.  

The first spell of rains also saw few motorcyclists slipping on the road along the Western Express Highway and SV Road.

Here’s how Twitter reacted:

BMC bhava, take care! #MumbaiRains pic.twitter.com/E10cFi1yf7

— Nikhil (@niquotein) June 2, 2018

Mumbai rains reach social media before the ground surface#MumbaiRains

— Piyush Sharma (@misterpiyush) June 2, 2018

Pic 1: Mumbaikars on arrival of monsoon

Pic 2: Mumbaikars after 15 days#MumbaiRains pic.twitter.com/JY6G45vDLt

— PhD in Bakchodi (@Atheist_Krishna) June 2, 2018

During Nehru's times it used to rain in Mumbai in July #MumbaiRains

— Atul Khatri (@one_by_two) June 2, 2018

#mumbairains
Day 01 - 
Day 10 - 
Day 20 -
Day 30 -

— Lalit (@lalpra) June 2, 2018

मुंबई की पहली बारिश। #MumbaiRains
Hope city will not be flooded this time. pic.twitter.com/AdPGdxGeBd

— Sanjay Nirupam (@sanjaynirupam) June 2, 2018

Wait for the rains like an entire lifetime and then when it rains, worry about clothes, skin, hair and shoes. #MumbaiRains

— Chitra Chaudhuri (@ChitraChaudhuri) June 2, 2018

day one: OMG YAY IT IS RAINING FINALLY GETTING AWAY WITH THE HEAT
day ten: omg yay nice
day twenty: nice
day thirty: WTF YAAR KITNI BAARISH HAI STOP THIS RAIN GODDAMNIT#MumbaiRains

— sai (@sairajbhor) June 2, 2018

My train is stuck on the Vashi bridge, which is surrounded by sea and it's raining so heavily and thundering and lightning and I am really scared for my life! What if this bridge breaks? OMG #MumbaiRains

— Shweta Sunny (@shwetamathew) June 2, 2018

Why rains in Mumbai but not in Delhi? What's the deal with Ambani, Indra Dev and Modi Ji? PM Modi and Indra Dev must resign.

Kindly donate to #AAP so that we can create artificial rains for delhites. #MumbaiRains

— Arvind Kejriwal (@TroluKejri) June 2, 2018

You know #MumbaiRains have arrived when...

your @TataSky starts showing you this: pic.twitter.com/oe0SN5JTun

—  ARCtist  (@ARCtist_) June 2, 2018