Water entered many homes and residential complexes within the metropolis as roads went underwater owing to the in a single day rain that began previous midnight.
The town is bracing for extra downpour because the India Meteorological Division (IMD) stated {that a} low-pressure space over the northeast Bay of Bengal is prone to convey heavy rain in a number of south Bengal districts.
Rainfall was heaviest within the southern and jap components of the town, with Garia Kamdahari recording 332 mm in just some hours, in accordance with the Kolkata Municipal Company (KMC). This was adopted by 285 mm in Jodhpur Park, 280 mm in Kalighat, 275 mm in Topsia, 264 mm in Ballygunge, and 195 mm in Thantania in north Kolkata.
A low-pressure space has shaped over the northeast Bay of Bengal and is prone to transfer northwestwards, bringing widespread mild to reasonable rain with remoted heavy to very heavy downpour over some districts of south Bengal, the IMD stated.
The IMD stated heavy rainfall is prone to happen in Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur, South 24 Parganas, Jhargram and Bankura districts of South Bengal until Wednesday.
It stated that one other contemporary low-pressure space is prone to type over the east-central and adjoining north Bay of Bengal round September 25.