Waterlogging to traffic snarls, a manic monsoon Monday for the city
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Published 20.09.21, 12:50 PM
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A waterlogged stretch in New Town, AE block, Action Area 1A on Monday, September 20. It was a wet start to the week once again for Kolkata, with rain lashing the city overnight and continuing through the morning
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Waterlogging was reported from many parts of the city, including Ultadanga, Kankurgachi, Central Avenue, near Science City, College Street, Hungerford Street. A New Town resident said he had never seen the township get so flooded after rain. Kolkata airport tweeted, citing rain and traffic and urging travellers to start early for the airport
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A snapshot from Salt Lake early on Monday morning. Many stretches of Bidhannagar were flooded too. Long-time residents said waterlogging was a relatively new phenomenon in Salt Lake
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In its forecast bulletin on Monday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) pointed to a cyclonic circulation over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of north Odisha-West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts
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The IMD Kolkata's impact forecast for the day, updated at noon on Monday, said there would be “few spells of rain/thunder with one or two spells of heavy rain with thundershowers very likely”. The expected impact, it said, would be waterlogging in low-lying areas and traffic congestion
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A submerged Amherst street in north Kolkata. The city received 142mm of rain in the 24 hours before 8.30am on Monday, the second highest in the state after Salt Lake
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At Kaikhali, near the airport in Kolkata, on Monday afternoon. Many stretches off VIP Road were submerged
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VIP Road, near Haldiram, at 3.55pm on Monday. One flank of VIP Road in the area had to be shut because of waterlogging, sparking traffic snarls
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Traffic pile-up on the way to airport on VIP Road
The journey from Salt Lake to the airport, which usually takes 20-25 minutes, took around 75 minutes on Monday afternoon
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Near Maidan area on Monday afternoon. The Alipore Met office's five-day forecast issued on Monday said it would be a wet week but the intensity of the rain would reduce every day
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At Taratala in south Kolkata. Kolkata received 142mm rain till 8.30 on Monday morning. Just for perspective, Mumbai got 944mm of rain that disastrous July 26 in 2005
