Heavy rains have continued to lash Mumbai and in the last 33 hours (8.30am on Monday to 5.30 pm on Tuesday) the Santacruz observatory has recorded 216.2mm of rains while Colaba has recorded 117.4 mm of rains. As per IMD, rains on Tuesday that had stopped post late noon will once again commence from late evening and continue till late night.
The rains are due to an offshore trough becoming active and weathermen have predicted that along with Mumbai several others parts of Konkan area will witness heavy to very heavy rainfall between July 4 to July 6.
On Tuesday between 8.30am to 5.30pm Santacruz observatory recorded 84.8mm of rains while the Colaba observatory recorded 42.2mm. “Of the total rain recorded till 5.30pm Santacruz had already received 83.2 and Colaba 39.2 within six hours (till 2.30pm), which shows the intensity of rains till noon after which it subsided,” said an IMD official.
Several locations saw rainfall above 50mm between Tuesday 8.30am to 5.30pm including Kandivali east(64.4mm), Goregaon(72.8mm) Mulund east(72.8mm) Jogeshwari link road(69mm) Powai(96.8mm) Bhandup west(66.4mm) Andheri east (79.4mm) Malad west(97.2mm) Worli (50.4mm) Borivali east (63.6mm) and Nerul (67.4mm)
Akshay Deoras, an independent meteorologist said that with windy weather Mumbai is already witnessing very active monsoon conditions and Mumbai will witness frequent showers of moderate to heavy intensity till July 6. Meanwhile Skymet, private weather forecasting agency stated that although there is no weather system over Mumbai still the city has managed to record extremely heavy rainfall.
The portal stated that as per weathermen, there are two reasons behind Mumbai rains in the absence of any significant weather system. Firstly, whenever the axis of Monsoon trough shifts along the foothills, rains are then confined to West Coast, second, if any system is forming in North Bay of Bengal that would eventually pull the Monsoon surge. “Mumbai, at present, is in the first situation wherein it recorded extremely heavy rainfall. Not only this, the city is now in the changeover mode to the second one. A cyclonic circulation is seen brewing in Bay of Bengal, which would keep the Monsoon surge active over Mumbai,” it stated.
