Mumbai wakes up to light rain amid a yellow alert; showers to let up from Sunday
The rain led to traffic snarls in multiple locations in Mumbai, including the Western Express Highway and the Eastern Express Highway.
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IMD's record shows that the Santacruz observatory has recorded 11 mm of rainfall until Friday morning, followed by 9 mm at the coastal observatory at Colaba. (File)
As Mumbai continues to be under a yellow alert until Saturday, the Maximum City woke up to a light and moderate spell of rain Friday morning, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD)’s forecast showed that light showers will continue for the next 48 hours.
According to the weather bureau, Mumbai is expected to remain overcast throughout the day, with cloud cover persisting.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s automatic weather stations (AWS) show that Mumbai’s eastern suburbs recorded 24.86 mm of rainfall till Friday morning, followed by 9 mm in the island city, and 7.15 mm in its western suburbs.
IMD’s record shows that the Santacruz observatory has recorded 11 mm of rainfall until Friday morning, followed by 9 mm at the coastal observatory at Colaba.
“The ongoing rain activity is ongoing due to low pressure that has developed in the Bay of Bengal. This low pressure is leading to an interaction between dry and moist winds, which is creating heavy rainfall over Mumbai and adjoining districts in the Konkan region of Maharashtra,” a senior official told the Indian Express.
In its last five-day forecast that was issued Thursday, September 4, IMD sounded an orange alert for the Palghar, Thane, and Raigad districts till Sunday, September 6. The IMD forecast also stated that rain activity will gradually subside from September 7 onwards.
Meanwhile, the rain led to traffic snarls in multiple locations in Mumbai, including the Western Express Highway (WEH) and the Eastern Express Highway (EEH).
So far, IMD’s Santacruz observatory has received 2,530 mm of rainfall since June, and the Colaba observatory has received 1677.4 mm of rainfall until now.
Overall, the city records an average of 2,319 mm of rainfall between June and September, which are labelled as monsoon months for the year.
This year, Mumbai saw an early monsoon onset on May 26 — the earliest in 75 years. Typically, the arrival of the Southwest Monsoon occurs between June 8 and 15 each year, and the average rainfall recorded in June is 537 mm.
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