Mumbai to see wet Anant Chaturdashi as IMD issues orange alert

“The rain is 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 rain over Mumbai and adjoining districts in the Konkan region of Maharashtra,” a senior official told the Indian Express.

Alongside Mumbai, an orange alert has been placed for Thane, Palghar, Raigad and Ratnagiri districts in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. Meanwhile for Palghar, an orange alert has been kept in place till September 7, morning.

The IMD’s record further shows that between 8 am and 5.30 pm on Friday, the coastal observatory at Colaba recorded 12.4 mm of rain, while the Santacruz observatory recorded 7.1 mm of rains.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s automatic weather stations (AWS) show that Mumbai’s eastern suburbs recorded 24.86 mm of rain till Friday morning, followed by 9 mm in the island city, and 7.15 mm in its western suburbs.

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 will gradually subside from September 7.

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 rain 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 rain 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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