Mumbaikars and Thanekars woke up to pleasant morning today, June 21, due to heavy rains that has been continuing since last night. This comes amid an ‘orange alert’, which indicates heavy to very heavy rainfall, issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for today, to the two Maharashtra regions. Moreover, according to meteorologists, heavy to very heavy showers are likely in the late evening on Tuesday.
In addition, an orange alert has also been issued for the coastal districts of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, official stated.
Owing to the onset of monsoon, clean air finally enveloped the city. The AQI has seen a drop for a week now, with the lowest recorded at 20 yesterday, on Monday, June 20.
Experts stated that the air quality of the city has become good due to the rains, which tend to wash off air pollutants, further bringing down the AQI count.
For those unversed, exactly a month earlier Mumbai recorded the year’s worst Air Quality Index (AQI) of 309 (May 20), which was worse than Delhi’s 191. It was a result of dust storms emanating from the northwest.
There are six AQI categories, according to SAFAR, namely ‘good’ (0 to 50), ‘satisfactory’ (50 to 99), ‘moderate’ (100 to 199), ‘poor’ (200 to 299), ‘very poor’ (300 to 399), and ‘severe’ (400 to 500).
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A senior official exclaimed that Monsoon is active over Maharashtra. Accordingly, IMD has issued severe weather alerts for the next five days and heavy rainfall alerts have been issued in areas including Mumbai, Thane.
The IMD has four-colour coded alerts, namely green (no warning), yellow (watch), orange (alert) and red (warning).
Meanwhile, a day earlier, on Monday, June 20, IMD’s Santacruz observatory recorded 13 mm of rainfall, whereas the Colaba observatory measured 67 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours. In this month so far, between June 1 and June 20, the Santacruz observatory has recorded 127.8mm of rainfall, whereas the Colaba observatory recorded 219 mm of rainfall during the same period.
The weather department also forecasts that the light to moderate rainfall is likely on all the days till June 30. However, spells of heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected on June 24, 25, and also on June 28 and 30.
It is pertinent to note that as monsoon arrives, the daytime minimum temperature has fallen to 24 and 23.5 degrees Celsius at IMD’s Santacruz and Colaba observatory respectively. Besides, the maximum temperature has also been reduced, however, keeping the relative humidity as high as 89-93 per cent.
IMD’s observatories recorded the maximum temperature at 29.3 and 27.7 degrees Celsius respectively on Tuesday, June 21.
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