According to the latest reports, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted heavy to extremely heavy rains till July 12. Since June 1, Mumbai city has received 1015 mm and the suburbs attained 1107 mm of rainfall. In light of the heavy rainfall prediction, the Maharashtra government has stationed 13 National Disaster Relief Forces (NDRF) teams across the state, with two in Mumbai at Ghatkopar and Kanjurmarg.
Further, the IMD has kept an orange alert from Mumbai and Thane till Wednesday, July 13 which indicated heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places. Following an intense downpour in Mumbai in the past week, "light to very light rainfall" was witnessed in the past two days in the city.
Based on accounts, in the nine hours ending at 5.30 pm on Sunday, July 10, the IMD's Santacruz observatory registered 3.6 mm of rainfall which is categorised as light rainfall. On the other hand, the Colaba observatory registered 6.5 mm of rainfall.
Forecasts predict that Mumbai could witness extremely heavy rains in isolated places on Wednesday, July 13 and Thursday, July 14.
Additionally, after the incessant rains from July 1, Mumbai's average rainfall in the month was 40.9 mm under the average 855.7 mm as of Sunday. Since July 1, Mumbai registered 814.8 mm of rainfall. With this, the city attained 70 per cent of the month's rainfall in the first six days of July.
The heavy downpour in the catchment areas has accorded immense relief to Mumbaikars, who two weeks ago were worried about the depleting water stock levels.
It has been reported that in the past 24 hours, the overall lake level has surged by 7 per cent or 97,607 million litres. These reports claim is enough for almost a month. Since the heavy rains began this season, in total, the catchment areas have collected water supply worth 134 days at nearly 40 per cent.
Narratives suggest that the lakes have gathered 35.36 per cent which is 5,15,736 million litres out of the aggregate capacity of 14,47,363 million litres. Now, Mumbai has more stock of water in contrast to the previous two years. Considering this, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently rolled back its 10 per cent water cut which it had earlier imposed.
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