The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday, September 7 said that Mumbai is likely to witness heavy rain from Wednesday, August 8. Accordingly, the department has issued a yellow alert (heavy rain at isolated places is very likely) for the day. In addition, it also stated that the wet spell is expected till the weekend.
Moreover, IMD issued an orange alert (heavy to very heavy rain) at a few places in Thane and Palghar from today.
Similarly, Skymet Weather has also mentioned that the city is expected to witness some heavy to very heavy rains on September 7 and 8.
The low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is expected to cross the coast and move over to the central parts of the country. The confluence zone will be ahead of the system over Konkan and adjoining areas. Due to this weather phenomenon, Mumbai expected to see heavy showers for the next two days at least.
Not only this, adjoining areas of Raigad, Palghar, Ratnagiri, Dahanu as well as other areas of Maharashtra may also see some moderate to heavy showers during the same time frame.
With these rains, it looks like Mumbai will be able to match up to the monthly mean in the first 10 days of the month itself.
There was no significant rain on Monday, with IMD Santacruz recording 0.4mm in the nine hours ending at 5.30 pm. In the 24 hours ending 8.30 am yesterday, IMD Colaba recorded light rain (4.5mm) and IMD Santacruz 6.4mm.
Isolated rain spells saw the maximum temperature rise to over 30 degrees Celsius in the city.
On the other hand, the city recorded 108 mm of rain on the first day of September itself.
Since then Mumbai has been receiving or none of the rainfall activity ranging between light to moderate in nature. So far, until September 6, Mumbai has recorded 227 mm of rains which is more than half of its monthly average at 341.4 mm.
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