Mumbai’s rainfall quota surpasses 3,000mm-mark as heavy showers lash city

Data furnished by the upwind section showed that the Santacruz presumption received 74mm rainfall betwixt Thursday and Friday greeting portion the coastal observatory astatine Colaba recorded 43mm during the aforesaid period. In the past 24 hours ending astatine 8am connected Friday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) automatic upwind stations (AWS) besides recorded an mean of 74.46mm rainfall successful the occidental suburbs, 49.07mm successful the eastbound suburbs, and 22.93 mm successful the land city.

In airy of the showers continuing unabated this week, Mumbai has present logged implicit 3,000 mm rainfall this season, with the Santacruz station’s full seasonal rainfall touching 3,016mm rainfall connected Friday morning. The Colaba coastal
observatory, meanwhile, has clocked astir 2,602mm rainfall since the onset of monsoon successful June.

Meanwhile, passim Friday, Mumbai continued to person mean to dense rainfall, with the showers intensifying successful the noon. Due to the aggravated spells, IMD upgraded its forecast for Friday, placing Mumbai and Thane districts nether a yellowish alert amid anticipation of ‘heavy rainfall alongside thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds’.

While upwind scientists attributed the ongoing dense showers to a trough and westerlies, they person indicated that the strength of rainfall is acceptable to subside implicit the weekend.

Sunil Kamble, manager of IMD Mumbai, told The Indian Express, “While determination is simply a trough, the dense showers successful the portion is simply a effect of beardown westerlies. However, the precocious aerial cyclonic circulation implicit Maharashtra has present weakened and therefore, the strength of rains is slated to trim from Saturday.”

With lone mean showers connected cards for Saturday, the IMD has issued nary warnings successful the metropolis. The full portion is slated to witnesser reduced rainfall with the upwind section forecasting lone ‘light to mean rains’ from Sunday.

According to civic officials, amid dense rain, astatine slightest 10 incidents of histrion collapses, 8 cases of abbreviated circuits and 2 incidents of partial partition collapses were reported crossed the metropolis betwixt Thursday and Friday.

However, nary injuries were reported.

A time prior, astatine slightest 4 deaths were reported crossed the metropolitan portion including 1 decease successful Mumbai erstwhile a 45-year-old woman, Vimal Gaikwad, who was returning from her bureau successful Andheri MIDC drowned aft she fell into an unfastened stormwater drain connected Thursday.