The weather in Mumbai continues to be wet and humid. Earlier on, IMD had issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar for Monday and Tuesday. The IMD warned of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall along the west coast of Maharashtra and the southern states on Monday.
It continued to rain on Monday night and even on Tuesday morning. There were warning sounded for heavy rainfall during the night.
K S Hosalikar. deputy director-general at IMD Mumbai, in a tweet, had shared. "Monsoon will get vigours over Maharashtra and heavy showers are expected on Monday night.
Monsoon vigorous over Maharashtra & adjoining central India as seen from the latest satellite picture.
— K S Hosalikar (@Hosalikar_KS) June 15, 2020
Mumbai warnings continue. Rainfall in Mumbai already reached in bracket of heavy RF in Suburbs in last 12 hrs.
Heavy showers expected to night
tomorrow to keep watch please too. pic.twitter.com/hgipvXXSYt
Monsoon had made a beeline for Mumbai on June 14. The earlier predictions had suggested that the monsoon will arrive in Mumbai by June 11.
On Tuesday morning, there were reports of rain and local trains running late from various parts of the city. As per IMD, the monsoon is active on the west coast of the city on Tuesday morning.
Latest satellite and radar images of current weather situation especially over west coast and Mumbai.
— K S Hosalikar (@Hosalikar_KS) June 16, 2020
Monsoon on west coast active as seen.
Radar winds are indicated upto 6.3 km.with lower levels W to SW and then turning anticlock wise becoming easterly.
Will update. pic.twitter.com/pgI8ySQpt3
IMD also shared that in the last 12 hours, some of the areas around Andheri had received more than 70mm of rain.
Andheri side (orange circled) more than 70 mm RF in last 12 hrs.
— K S Hosalikar (@Hosalikar_KS) June 15, 2020
Moderate rainfall all over the city and around with TSRA activity went on for 30 minutes. Now reduced.
Light rains continue over city.
Chance of heavy showers too overnight. pic.twitter.com/bmLgYRHW54
Skymet had also predicted that rain activity will pick up Monday onwards. It also went on to note that Santacruz has recorded 37mm rain in the last 24 hours while Colaba observatory has recorded 53mm of rain. Mahesh Palawat of Skymet also went on to note that, the on and off showers around Mumbai will keep the temperature of the city in the comfortable zone.
As predicted, #Rains increased over #Mumbai and suburbs. #Santacruz recorded 37 mm and #Colaba 53 mm rain during last 24 hours. On and off showers with isolated intense spells will keep temperatures in comfortable zone. #MumbaiMonsoon #MumbaiRains @SkymetWeather
— Mahesh Palawat (@Mpalawat) June 16, 2020
On Tuesday, there were heavy showers of rainfall in South Mumbai too.
Showers in South Mumbai/ Colaba all the way up to Sion and Matunga #mumbairain #mumbairainapp pic.twitter.com/8hbQv7jSlZ
— Jatin Singh (@JATINSKYMET) June 16, 2020
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