A rainy Diwali likely for Mumbai and neighbouring districts: IMD forecasts light rain, thunderstorms

On October 15, the IMD announced the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon successful Mumbai. Although showers continued subsequently, the monsoon began to recede gradually, resulting successful a emergence successful temperatures.

Data from the IMD indicated that betwixt Sunday and Monday morning, some the land metropolis and suburban areas of Mumbai experienced nary rainfall, with a recorded full of 0 mm. Meanwhile, owed to the influx of northerly winds, temperatures remained 1 grade beneath normal, ranging betwixt 33 and 34 degrees Celsius.

Starting Wednesday, however, Mumbai and Thane districts whitethorn spot airy rainfall alongside thundershowers until Thursday and Friday respectively. In Raigad and Ratnagiri, meanwhile, the IMD sounded a yellowish informing betwixt Wednesday and Friday alluding to the likelihood of thunderstorms, lightning coupled with airy to mean showers and gusty winds.

Allaying immoderate concerns of dense rainfall Sunil Kamble, manager of IMD Mumbai, maintained the metropolis whitethorn lone person airy showers with thunderstorm enactment during the evenings.

Talking to The Indian Express, Kamble said, “Currently, determination is an precocious aerial cyclonic circulation successful the Arabian Sea that persists astatine 1.5 km supra oversea level. It is owing to this strategy that we are expecting immoderate rainfall enactment successful the coming days. Since a yellowish alert has been sounded successful Raigad, the system’s effect whitethorn bring immoderate airy rainfall and thundershowers successful Mumbai arsenic well.”

Earlier this month, unexpected bouts of mean to dense rainfall affected the city, disrupting the Navratri celebrations. As of now, Mumbai’s Santa Cruz presumption has recorded 86 mm of rainfall successful October, portion the Colaba coastal observatory has registered 131 mm.