Up till 7 pm, 24 flights had to go around and 11 flights were diverted amid heavy rains.

Per FlightRadar24, the average delay in departures at Mumbai airport stand at 66 minutes, while arrivals are seeing an average delay of 23 minutes.

The Maharashtra Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which operates the Mumbai Monorail, said that preliminary investigation found the total weight of the monorail had risen to about 109 metric tons, which exceeded its original design capacity of 104 tons.

"This excess weight caused a mechanical disconnection between the power rail and the current collector, leading to disruption of the power supply essential for the monorail's operation. As a result, the monorail came to a halt," the statement read.

"It is important to emphasise that the Mumbai Monorail is a limited-capacity public transport system designed for specific routes, and is not built to handle the sudden surge of heavy crowds like traditional suburban trains or the metro system," the MMRDA said.

The Marathwada region, which has been experiencing heavy rainfall since August 14, has reported 11 deaths and widespread damage to property and agriculture.

District-wise breakdown:

Nanded: 7 deaths, 2,59,789 hectares of crop damage

Hingoli: 2 deaths, 56,806 hectares of crop damage

Beed: 2 deaths, 2,045 hectares of crop damage

BJP MLA Captain Tamil Selvan said that the monorail incident happened because of the overload of passengers.

"The passengers should have thought about the train's capacity. The BMC and MMRDA arrived and rescued all the passengers. A major accident has been averted," he said.

All 442 passengers inside a stalled Monorail were rescued around three hours after the carriages halted due to a technical problem.. 

14 passengers who complained of suffocation were treated onsite, while one 20-year-old female passenger was sent to Sion Hospital and is in a stable condition.

After being rescued from the stranded Mumbai Monorail, a passenger told ANI that while those inside the carriages were patient, senior citizens and children were facing difficulties. "Suffocation was the main problem inside the train," he said.

Another passenger Sunil said, "I was in the train from 5.30 pm. The rescue operation started after one hour (of the Monorail getting stalled). This train arrived after a gap of 30 minutes, so the entire train was overloaded with passengers."

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis said that due to technical reason, a monorail got stuck between Chembur and Bhakti Park. MMRDA, the fire brigade, and the municipal corporation reached the spot.

As waist-high flooding was witnessed in Kurla, Mumbai Police rushed a 93-year-old man on oxygen support to the hospital when a life-threatening situation arose.

Service on the mainline from CSMT to Thane/Kalyan were restored at 7.03 pm.

First slow train for Karjat departed at 7.24 pm.

Mithi river, usually a scanty water body with dirty water and littered with trash, was seen flowing above the danger mark.

A large number of commuters in Mumbai were inconvenienced amid heavy rains and many were forced to jump out of the stranded trains and walk through the waterlogged tracks. Civic personnel distributed biscuits to the stranded passengers in some places.

A Monorail train came to a halt between Mysore Colony and Bhakti Park stations in Mumbai amid downpour with fire brigade and other agencies carrying out a rescue operation using cranes, officials said.

The train, which runs on an elevated track, was stuck for at least one hour, they said. The train suffered "a minor power supply issue", Mumbai Monorail said in a release.

Three snorkel vehicles of the Mumbai fire brigade have been deployed at the spot and the passengers are being rescued by cutting the window glass.

The Congress said that the BMC is answerable for turning Mumbai, the country's financial capital, into a swimming pool.

A monorail broke down in Mumbai this evening amid heavy rain, stranding nearly 100 passengers for more than an hour.

The weather office said the rainfall activity in Mumbai is linked to a depression that moved across south Odisha and Chhattisgarh on Tuesday morning and is expected to weaken into a low-pressure area within 12 hours.

Monsoon systems, including the offshore trough running from south Gujarat to north Kerala and an upper air circulation over the northeast Arabian Sea, are also helping in maintaining strong rainfall activity over Maharashtra, it stated.

Leptospirosis primarily spreads through contaminated water or soil. During heavy rainfall, the urine or body fluids of infected animals can easily contaminate both.

Rainfall levels in Mumbai till 5.30 pm:

Santacruz: 163.4

Vikhroli: 161.5

Juhu: 118.5

Bandra: 100.5

Byculla: 98.0

Colaba: 63.0

Heavy rains submerged parts of Mumbai on Tuesday morning, and it wasn't just the financial capital's streets that were flooded. It rained memes on social media as well, with people saying they had grown accustomed to the city's downpour.

Bus operations of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking were badly hit due to waterlogged roads.

Dozens of bus routes were diverted due to the inundation in low-lying areas, a BEST spokesperson said. Nearly a dozen buses were stuck due to waterlogging at different locations in the city and suburbs.

Commuters faced severe hardship as local train services of the Central Railway were disrupted on its main and harbour lines due to submergence of tracks after torrential rains in Mumbai.

The Central Railway suspended its suburban services on the main between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (in south Mumbai) and Thane and on the harbour line between CSMT and Kurla.

At some places, the tracks were submerged under as much as 17 inches of water, officials said.

The water rose up to eight inches above the tracks in Sion and Kurla sections, prompting the railway authorities to suspend train operations.

A large number of commuters were inconvenienced and many were forced to jump out of the stranded trains and walk through the waterlogged tracks.