Monsoon Tracker: Now over Maharashtra, Mumbai braces for rains this weekend

The monsoon is slated to make an onset in Mumbai over the next two-three days and last year, the monsoon onset in Mumbai was on June 25. A yellow alert is in place for Mumbai with a forecast of thunderstorms, moderate showers in the city.

Two days ahead of its normal onset date of June 1, the southwest monsoon set in over Kerala on May 30. Simultaneously it commenced early in some parts of Northeastern India.

The four-month-long chief monsoon season brings over 70 per cent of the country’s rainfall and the June to September period is key to rain-fed kharif cultivation in the country and for filling up reservoirs and dams.

For the 2024 monsoon season, the IMD has forecast ‘above’ normal rainfall and quantitatively, it is expected to be 106 per cent of the long-period average (LPA), which is 880.6 mm (based on 1971–2020 data).

Normal or above rainfall is predicted over Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, northern regions of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Sikkim and Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand.

Below-normal rainfall is likely over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, and southern areas of West Bengal. If this is realised, states in eastern India will experience a rainfall deficit for the seventh consecutive season, the IMD rainfall data stated.

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