AFTER torrential downpour brought the city to a standstill, Mumbai witnessed subdued showers and sunny skies throughout Wednesday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert in the city from Thursday with weather scientists indicating that the city is slated to witness moderate to heavy spells over the next 3 to 4 days.
On Wednesday, the city woke up to sunny skies with the IMD’s Santacruz observatory recording 4 mm and Colaba station registering 3 mm rain between Tuesday and Wednesday morning. During the same period, the BMC’s automatic weather station showed that the maximum rainfall was observed in the eastern suburbs wherein 6 mm rain was received in 24 hours, followed by 3.42 mm rain in the city division and 3.83 mm rain in the western suburbs.
Throughout Wednesday, meanwhile, the suburbs received only 1.6 mm rain between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm. In light of the subdued showers, the citizens experienced hot and sultry conditions throughout the day with the Santacruz station recording a maximum temperature of nearly 32 degrees.
However, meteorologists have indicated that the intensity of showers is slated to gather pace starting Thursday.
The weather bureau has issued a yellow alert in Mumbai and Thane from Thursday until the end of the week on Saturday. In Raigad district, meanwhile, an orange alert has been sounded from Friday to Saturday.
Sunil Kamble, director of IMD Mumbai told The Indian Express, “We are expecting intermittent spells of moderate to heavy rainfall in isolated pockets of the district from today. This type of rainfall is slated to continue for the next 3 to 4 days and therefore, a yellow alert has been sounded in Mumbai. During monsoon, south-westerly winds are also there and therefore, such type of rainfall is typical for the region during the monsoon months.”
Meanwhile, the stock in the seven lakes supplying water to Mumbai touched 21.67 percent of the total capacity on Wednesday morning, which amounts to 3.13 lakh million litres. According to the BMC data, last year, on the same day, the lake levels stood at 24.93 percent while in 2022, the water stock remained at 35.63 percent.
Earlier, on the night of Sunday, the city was taken by surprise after torrential rain swept Mumbai, leaving citizens to reel under waterlogged streets in several locations.
In what made it the city’s wettest July day since 2019, the IMD’s Santacruz recorded 268 mm rain within 24 hours, of which the maximum rain (210 mm) was recorded in a matter of two hours.
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