Mumbai rain: Heavy rain battered Mumbai late on Sunday, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing orange and red alerts for several parts of the city as well as its suburban areas.
Several parts of the city also suffered from waterlogging, which disrupted traffic movement.
Early on Monday morning, around 3 am, the weather office took to X and said, “Light to moderate spell of rainfall is likely to continue over Mumbai and suburban areas during next 3-4 hours.”
The weather forecast for the day, as per IMD, is “generally cloudy sky with heavy rain”. The minimum temperature on Monday is likely to settle at 24 degrees Celsius, while the maximum is expected to be around 31 degrees Celsius. The weekly weather prediction board for Mumbai showed rain being consistent for this entire week.
Mumbai weather forecast
According to IMD, a well-marked low-pressure area was lying over south madhya Maharashtra and adjoining areas of Marathwada and North Interior Karnataka on Sunday, May 25. It stated that the area is likely to move eastwards during the next 24 hours, and then would eventually weaken.
The weather office forecast that scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall along with thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds is reaching Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra during May 25-27.
The Madhya Maharashtra region is under orange alert for Monday, with the regional weather office forecasting “very heavy rain with thunderstorms and lightning, squall, etc”.
Eight weather stations in Mumbai are under red alert – Borivali, Santacruz, Powai, Mulund, Chembur, Worli, Colaba, and Alibag. The weather stations of Navi Mumbai, Thane, and Kalyan are under orange alert.
As per Nowcast warnings, Raigad district is under red alert. The IMD forecast moderate thunderstorms and heavy rainfall, with maximum surface wind speeds expected on Monday.
Meanwhile, Thane and Palghar districts are under orange alert.
Southwest monsoon in Maharashtra
The southwest monsoon arrived in Maharashtra on Sunday, making it the earliest onset of the annual rainfall season over the state in 35 years, the weather office said.
Southwest monsoon made an onset over Maharashtra on May 20 in 1999, IMD scientist Sushma Nair was cited as saying by news agency PTI.
Kerala also witnessed an early arrival of the southwest monsoon on Saturday. Usually, it marks its onset over Kerala by June 1 and then reaches Maharashtra around June 7, and Mumbai on June 11.
A monsoon expert and former secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, M Rajeevan, said that early onset and coverage of large areas on the first day itself is not uncommon.
“In 1971, the monsoon at the time of onset covered a larger area in Karnataka and parts of Maharashtra. Present active monsoon conditions will continue at least till June 2 and will help to advance monsoon into Maharashtra and eastern parts of the country,” Rajeevan said.
Article source: hindustantimes.com
