Rainy weekend ahead: Yellow alert in Mumbai until Monday

Sushma Nair, scientist from IMD Mumbai said, “The city will experience a wet weekend with the peak rainfall activity to unleash on Sunday. The city can experience good rainfall activity owing to a well marked low pressure area which is currently positioned in North Odisha. As the low pressure system moves further towards Chhattisgarh, the rain activity will increase in the city”

Meanwhile, Mahesh Palawat from Skymet Weather Services said, “Over the course of the next two days, this will move towards Vidarbha. The westerly winds will intensity thereby bringing rainfall over the entire west coast from Gujarat to Goa.”

“While Gujarat may receive very heavy rains, Mumbai, Thane and Dahanu may receive moderate showers with intense spells of heavy rains in some pockets starting on Friday. Mumbai will experience heightened rain activity until September 21 at least, following which the intensity will start reducing,” said Palawat.

The upcoming monsoon showers will bring relief to citizens currently reeling under a hot spell. Even as the weather bureau issued a yellow alert on Thursday night, between Wednesday and Thursday morning, IMD’s Santacruz weather station recorded 13 mm rainfall whereas the Colaba coastal observatory registered trace rainfall. In meteorology, trace denotes that while the amount of downpour was greater than zero mm, the proportions were too little to be registered by standard units of measurement.

Meanwhile, during the same period, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Automatic Weather System found that the maximum showers were recorded in the western suburbs at 8.23 mm followed closely by the eastern suburbs where 7.55 mm rain was recorded. The island city division registered 1.28 mm showers.

Furthermore, data furnished by the civic body shows that the water stock in the seven lakes touched 97.09 per cent of the total capacity. The total quantum of water now stands at 14.05 lakh million litres. Meanwhile, last year, on the same day, the water stock touched 98.69 per cent.