The India Meteorological Division (IMD) prolonged the yellow alert for Mumbai until Thursday as it’s set to expertise average to heavy rainfall for the subsequent 24 hours.
On Thursday, the island metropolis and suburban belt of Mumbai woke as much as average and heavy spells of rain. The rainfall picked up from Wednesday evening and sporadic spells of rain continued all through the day.
The IMD’s Santacruz observatory recorded 20 mm of rainfall previously 24 hour cycle that ended at 8.25 am on Wednesday, whereas between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm Santacruz recorded 6.3 mm of rain.
In the meantime, IMD’s coastal observatory at Colaba recorded 55 mm of rainfall over the past 24 hour cycle that ended at 8.25 am on Wednesday and between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm, Colaba recorded 8.2 mm of rain.
Sushma Nair, scientist from IMD Mumbai stated that the warning has been prolonged until Thursday, contemplating westerlies proceed to prevail.
On Thursday Mumbai and its adjoining districts could report average to heavy rainfall all through the day and beginning Friday, the depth of rains could recede,” Nair instructed The Indian Express on Thursday.
After witnessing an early onset of rains, Mumbai recorded a dip in depth of showers. Nonetheless, rainfall began to select up once more from early this week. Earlier this 12 months, in its lengthy vary forecast, the IMD had forecasted surplus rainfall this 12 months.