Mumbaikars are observing moderate to heavy showers along with thunderstorms and lightning over the city similar to that on Wednesday evening, September 7, at same time. This marked the beginning of monsoon’s final wet spell in the region.
Meanwhile, during that the day, the city witnessed a sunny and humid weather.
According to Skymet, these are not typical monsoon showers, but thunderstorms caused by an increase in convective activity over the last couple of days.
It is pertinent to note that a day earlier, September 7, cloudy weather, high wind speeds and moderate showers were experienced across the larger Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), with most rain gauges receiving between 5-20mm of rainfall between 5pm and 6pm, soon after it began to rain.
On the other hand, India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) regional forecasting centre in Mumbai forecast westerly winds will become strong and normal monsoon showers will intensify over the weekend.
Besides, till September 10 moderate to heavy showers are expected in Mumbai after which the intensity of rain will increase and showers will become more widespread. A lull in rainfall is expected after September 13. Mumbai is likely to see repeated thunderstorms until September 10, after which typical monsoon showers will resume for a couple of days.
A yellow alert warning from Friday, September 9, to Sunday, September 11, has been issued indicating heavy rainfall at isolated places. Meanwhile, neighbouring districts of Raigad, Thane and Palghar -- which also saw heavy thunder and lightning on Wednesday evening -- are likely to see thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty winds over the next two days, per official forecasts.
As of 8:30am Wednesday, Mumbai’s base weather station in Santacruz had received a total seasonal rainfall of 2200.2mm, as against the four-month normal of 2318.8mm. The city is likely to exceed the normal rainfall over the next week.
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