Mercury touches 100-yr June high in Mumbai

“Throughout the day, winds over Mumbai were southerly and this lowered the humidity to as low as 60 per cent at Santacruz,” said K S Hosalikar, Deputy Director-General of Meteorology, IMD Mumbai. “We can expect warm days ahead, but not this bad,” he added. The maximum temperature at Colaba was 34 degrees Celsius, 1.5 degrees above normal, on Tuesday.

The minimum temperatures too were high on Tuesday, with Santacruz recording 29.8 degrees Celsius, almost 3.2 degrees above normal, and Colaba recording 28.4 degrees, 1.9 degrees above normal.

There seems to be no respite in sight, with IMD officials saying though the monsoon has reached Karwar in Karnataka, it is not likely to reach Mumbai in the next 48 hours. “There is a depression over the Arabian sea and we are watching its development. Sometimes, such systems delay or weaken the onset of monsoon towards the city,” said an official.

IMD officials in Pune said the southwest monsoon has further advanced into some more parts of west central Bay of Bengal, remaining parts of east central and north east Bay of Bengal, some parts of north west Bay of Bengal, entire Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and most parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

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