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INDIAN RAILWAYS UPDATE: Mumbai and its adjoining areas continue to receive heavy showers on Thursday, resulting in water-logging at a number of places including railway tracks, which slowed the movement of trains and vehicles on roads. The Central Railway and Western Railway officials said the local trains were operating “normally”, but a number of passengers, mostly office-goers, took to social media and complained that the suburban services were running late by at least 15-20 minutes. In a meeting on Wednesday,…

INDIAN RAILWAYS UPDATE: Mumbai and its adjoining areas continue to receive heavy showers on Wednesday, resulting in water-logging at a number of places including railway tracks, which slowed the movement of trains and vehicles on roads. With Tuesday’s downpour, Mumbai has recorded 69.41 per cent (594 mm) of the average July rainfall (855.7 mm) in just the first five days of the month. The local train services, considered as the lifeline of Mumbai, were affected mainly on the main and harbour corridors of the Central…

Apple has secured a patent that suggests the iPhone would become relevant to use in the rain. Although all the recent iPhone models have a water-resistant build, using the iPhone in the rain is not that easy. The water droplets on the display makes it difficult for users to type or access different areas on the screen. Apple seems to be in plans to address these issues by bringing features including a wet mode. The Cupertino company may also enable its future iPhone models to detect changes in the environment to adjust…

INDIAN RAILWAYS UPDATE: Thousands of passengers struggled to get to their workplaces on time as local train services in Mumbai were running late by 10 to 15 minutes due to heavy rain on Tuesday morning. Mumbai has been witnessing heavy rain since last couple of days. Despite heavy rainfall in Mumbai, Western Railway's local train services are running normally over Mumbai Suburban section – Churchgate to Dahanu Road.#MumbaiRain pic.twitter.com/GUczRiAtqH — Western Railway (@WesternRly) July 5, 2022 The India…

Rains can bring chaos to the Indian roads. With the first few drops of rain, we can always see vehicles and motorists on two-wheelers scrambling on the roads. First rain can be dangerous though. Why? Well, they make the roads slippery as this video on Twitter shows. Always slow down during a drizzle, especially on concrete roads in cities. The oil spilled by thousands of vehicles mixed with rain water forms a deadly combination making vehicles slip and slide haphazardly. Stay Safe. Ride Safe. #RoadSafety @RoadsOfMumbai…

Credit: NASA You wouldn't know it from the torrential rains that have inundated large parts of New South Wales and Queensland this year, but average late-autumn rainfall over southeast Australia has declined significantly since the 1990s. …

Credit: Shutterstock Driving in the rain can be demanding. It gets harder to see, sudden stopping is difficult, and rain can cause a car to lose grip when braking. Rain after a dry spell can cause grease and oil build-up on roads to become slippery. …

Freezing rain at Mountain Heng. Credit: Li Xingyu Freezing rain is a typical weather disaster in winter and early spring over many regions of the world, even tropical areas. It develops as supercooled water (below 0 °C) in the air and freezes immediately after depositing on cold surfaces. In southern China, freezing rain mainly happens in the mountainous areas.…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Driving home from work, Kristin Herman was gripping her steering wheel hard. It was mid-April, and one of the region's heaviest rainstorms since Hurricane Ida was hurtling through Bucks County, Pennsylvania. …

Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images As one of the biggest stars in Hollywood throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and even into the 2000s before his highly-publicized personal issues made headlines around the world for all the wrong reasons to derail his mainstream career, Mel Gibson would have been fielding high-profile offers left, right, and center on either side of the camera. That comes with the territory when you’ve got a proven track record of box office success, not to mention an ability to seamlessly…