After Mumbai witnessed moderate to heavy rain spells on Friday afternoon, October 7, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its latest forecast has issued a yellow alert for later today and tomorrow, October 8 for the city, Thane and Palghar.
If reports are to be believed, the southern part of the city, especially the Fort, JJ Flyover, Mahatma Phule market and Nariman Point were receiving heavy rains. Several areas in Thane including Dombivli, Hiranandani estate and other places also received intense rainfall.
According to IMD’s five-day forecast, thunderstorm with lightning and light to moderate rainfall is very likely to occur at isolated places over Amravati and Chandrapur districts of Vidarbha.
It said that the gusty winds reaching 30-40 kmph are likely to occur at isolated places in the districts of Thane, Raigad, Palghar, Pune, Mumbai, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Satara, Dhule and adjoining districts for the next couple of days.
The island city, eastern and western suburbs received average 1.05 mm, 9.12 mm and 1.28 mm rainfall respectively between 11 am to 2 pm, a civic official said.
7/10: Mumbai its raining continuous since morning today. Rainfall figures at 4.40 pm since morning are...
— K S Hosalikar (@Hosalikar_KS) October 7, 2022
CSMT 56.5 mm
Chembur 44.5
Vidyavihar 40.0
Vikroli 36.5
Intensity of rains more towards eastern suburbs ..
Its likely to continue ahead pl. pic.twitter.com/PkWhef0COd
In the last 24 hours ending at 8 am, Mumbai's island city, eastern and western suburbs had received 04.66mm, 02.69 mm and 01.39 mm average rainfall respectively, it was stated.
Meanwhile, eastern suburbs like Vikhroli received up to 35 mm rainfall in the four hour period, he said, adding that there was no report of major water-logging anywhere in the city.
The weather department further stated that monsoon is expected cause sporadic rains in city and surrounding regions till October 15.
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