The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that the onset of monsoon in Mumbai this year is likely to arrive by June 11. However, it is estimated to intensify over Mumbai and the adjoining areas after June 15.
Additionally, the weather department said that the conditions have become favourable over the city. Though first it will arrive in the Konkan and Goa regions.
On the other hand, Skymet report states that Mumbai has not received any rain in the 1st week of June 2022. Mostly clear sky, above normal temperature, warm and sultry weather and no rainfall has been the hallmark between June 1-8. Pre-Monsoon showers are inching closer to the financial capital, albeit non-disruptive, fleeting and patchy in nature. Partly cloudy sky, strong sea breeze and passing showers are expected over the city and suburbs over the next three days. This twist in the weather conditions will pave way for monsoon stream reaching Mumbai in the subsequent 3-4 days.
Having no rains or only light showers during the first 10 days of June, need not be construed as poor monsoon during the opening month of the season.
Monsoon has invariably arrived between June -15 on most occasions. Docile pre monsoon showers during the first 10 days do not spoil the prospectus of an overflowing June. Even, a weak start has all the chances to catch up later, with equal possibility of excess rains as happened in the recent times.
According to reports, on earlier such occasions, Mumbai rains caught up on later dates, particularly during 3rd and 4th week. Similar subdued monsoon rains during the 1st week were witnessed in 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and now in 2022. It could be a sheer coincidence or may be a pattern of having poor rains in the opening week, every 3 years but blasting later during 2nd half of the month, it further stated. Normal rainfall of Mumbai (Santacruz) for June is 493.1mm.
As on Thursday, June 8, the minimum temperature recorded in Santacruz was 29.5 degrees Celsius and the maximum was 34.9 degrees Celsius, with relative humidity touching 67 per cent.
Colaba, meanwhile, experienced a minimum temperature of 26.4 degrees Celsius and maximum temperature of 34.6 degrees Celsius, with relative humidity touching 76 per cent.
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