The city witnessed severe and widespread waterlogging on Tuesday morning, after receiving over 200 mm of rainfall in a short span of six hours, from 4 am to 10 am. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) analysis of Tuesday's rainfall pattern and the waterlogging experienced shows that just a few hours of unprecedented rain was responsible for the strain on infrastructure across the city. No untoward incidents were reported in Mumbai during this time.

In the 24 hours between Monday and Tuesday, the island city and eastern suburbs received 300 mm of rain, whereas the western suburbs received 361 mm. This is the highest recorded in 24 hours since 2017, when the city had received 420 mm rain. In the 10 hours between 8 am to 6 pm on Tuesday, Mumbai city reported 79.27 mm of rain, while the eastern suburbs reported 108.81 mm, and the western suburbs reported 115.92 mm.

So far this monsoon, the Colaba weather station has recorded 67.10 per cent of the average monsoon rainfall, at 1405.8 mm, while the Santacruz weather station has recorded 90.62 per cent of the average annual rainfall, amounting to 2102.8 mm. In the month of August alone, the Colaba weather station has recorded 482 mm of rainfall, and the Santacruz weather station recorded 533 mm. In the 24 hours till 5.30 pm on Tuesday, the Colaba weather station recorded 110.4 mm of rain, and the Santacruz weather station recorded 238.2 mm.