Mumbai, May 27 -- n The south-west monsoon that arrived in Mumbai 16 days earlier than the scheduled date of arrival, wreaked havoc in the country's commercial capital, flooding the roads, railway tracks and metro networks and paralysing normal life in the Island city and its suburbs. On a day when south Mumbai recorded 295 mm rain shattering 107 year-old record rainfall of 279.4 mm of rainfall registered in 1918, several parts of the metropolis lay under thick sheets of water causing considerable inconvenience to Mumbaikars on the first day of the arrival of the monsoon.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) went to town, announcing the earliest arrival of monsoon in Mumbai in 25 years. "Southwest Monsoon has advanced to Mumbai today,...