Sanjana Bhalerao

The decline in fish landings in the state is attributed to extreme weather events last year: bad weather, extended rain and cyclones.

“Intense rainfall over Mumbai on Monday night and the high moisture content in air, combined with wind speed, allowed swift dispersion of pollutants close to the surface," said Gufran Beig, director of System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research.

While the civic body has not mentioned the number of sheep or goats that can be slaughtered, it has, however, given permission to 40 vehicles to enter Deonar abattoir with these animals.

The 38-km-long Dodamarg wildlife corridor that connects Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra to Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka frequently witnesses elephant and tiger movement.

R-North ward, which covers Dahisar and parts of Borivali West, has seen the sharpest spike in cases in June, civic officials said. Till June 2, when the lockdown was partially relaxed in the city, the administrative ward had only reported 486 cases.

The drop in new cases in Dharavi is characterised by a steep fall in the doubling time of 18 days in the last week of April to 78 days as of June 19.

On June 4, Mumbai had recorded its best AQI for this year at 17. For April and May, the AQI ranged between 17 and 29.

The average rain recorded in Eastern suburbs in 10 hours was 52.6 mm, followed by island city at 37.43 mm while Western suburbs recorded 34.04 mm of rain.

While some parts in western suburbs recorded short but intense spells of rain on Monday, on Tuesday, the city recorded 0.8 mm of rain, in the 12 hours ending at 5:30 pm. On Wednesday, trace rainfall (which cannot be measured by a rain gauge) was recorded.

According to the new onset dates released by IMD, monsoon arrived in the state on June 10 and would cover the whole of Maharashtra by June 15.

The monsoon, IMD said, has advanced into parts of Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada on Friday with the onset line passing through Harnai in Ratnagiri district and Beed, Baramati and Wardha.

IFLOWS is a monitoring and flood warning system that will be able to relay alerts of possible flood-prone areas anywhere between six to 72 hours in advance.

According to IMD's district forecast and warnings, Mumbai, Thane and Palghar are very likely to receive thunderstorms, accompanied with lightning and gusty winds with speed reaching 30 to 40 kmph at isolated places, on Friday.

So far, 1,964 positive cases and 73 deaths have been recorded from Dharavi. At least 939 people have recovered from the slum sprawl. On Wednesday, Mumbai recorded 1,567 new infections, taking its total virus load to 52,667.

Since April 1, when the first case was reported from Dharavi's Baliga Nagar, BMC has screened 3.6 lakh people from the area, out of which 8,246 were senior citizens.

In September last year, a similar incident had taken place wherein people in many parts of western and eastern suburbs had complaint about a suspected gas leak. However, even then, the source of the smell was not established

In absence of clear guidelines, residents and housing welfare associations say they have found themselves in a fix on matters such as allowing domestic helps or doorstep delivery of newspapers among others.

The concentration of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter that can enter deep into the lungs and even the bloodstream – was recorded recorded at 17 on Thursday evening.

This is the second cyclone to strike the Indian coast in two weeks, but unlike Amphan, which wreaked havoc on the eastern coast 10 days ago, Nisarga was relatively milder. This is only the second time since 1902 that a cyclone has developed over the Arabian Sea.