Cloud cover brings down mercury

K Satidevi,director,IMD,Mumbai,said,“Though the cyclonic storm is very far from Mumbai,the loosened clouds are extending till here. The storm is an intense system and is also causing moisture incursion here. Light rains are possible till the system clears.”

On Wednesday,the maximum temperature in Santacruz dipped from 35.5°C at 8.30 am to 33°C at 5.30 pm. In Colaba,it recorded 34.9 °C in the morning and 34.8°C in the evening.

Meanwhile,Satidevi said that there was just a minute chance for the cyclonic system to affect the state’s monsoon. “While such system formations do disturb the atmosphere,it is not necessary that it upsets the entire monsoon here. We are just in the middle of May and monsoon sets in Mumbai only by June 10. The conditions are bound to improve by then,” she said.