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Dark clouds hover implicit the metropolis of Mumbai arsenic IMD has sounded a yellowish alert for Mumbai until Wednesday, astatine Marine Drive successful Mumbai. (Express photograph by Sankhadeep Banerjee)
Heavy showers coupled with thunderstorms and lightning swept the suburbs of Mumbai and its neighbouring districts successful the intervening nighttime of Monday and Tuesday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said dense to precise dense rain, on with thunderstorms, is present to stay, sounding an orangish alert for Mumbai for Wednesday.
After a agelong lull, dense rainfall made a comeback successful the metropolis connected Monday greeting with the strength gathering gait during the precocious hours, erstwhile large thunder activity, lightning and rainfall rattled the suburbs. Data furnished by IMD showed that portion its Santacruz presumption recorded 75mm of rain, the Colaba coastal observatory recorded 16mm successful the 24 hours ending astatine 8.30am connected Tuesday morning.
According to the BMC’s automatic upwind presumption data, the heaviest rainfall was recorded successful the eastbound suburbs astatine an mean of 55mm, followed by the occidental suburbs (35.73 mm) and the land metropolis part (31.10mm). With astir 100mm of rainfall recorded implicit the past 2 days, the Santacruz presumption registered 266mm successful September, which had been reeling nether a adust spell until the play truthful far. Mumbai registers astir 360mm of rainfall connected mean successful September.
Owing to the likelihood of dense to precise dense downpour, the IMD has issued an orangish alert successful Mumbai until Thursday greeting portion successful Thane, an orangish alert has been issued until Friday morning.
Meanwhile, successful the neighbouring territory of Raigad, a reddish alert (extremely dense rainfall), alongside thunderstorm and lightning, has been sounded for Wednesday portion Palghar has been placed nether a reddish informing connected Thursday.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Sushma Nair, idiosyncratic from IMD Mumbai, said the orangish alert has been issued amid the anticipation of thunderstorms on with dense showers owing to favourable conditions.
“Currently, we are having moist easterlies astatine mid levels and this benignant of situation is favourable for thunderstorms. Alongside that, determination is simply a debased unit country implicit the Bay of Bengal, which volition assistance successful the influx of moisture that is conducive for dense rainfall,” added Nair.
Later successful the week, the strength of showers volition recede with the IMD issuing a downgraded ‘yellow’ alert for Mumbai for Thursday portion nary alerts person been issued implicit the weekend.
Currently, the banal successful the 7 lakes catering to Mumbai’s h2o needs soared to 98.28 per cent oregon 14.22 lakh cardinal litres of the full capableness connected Tuesday morning. Lakes which proviso h2o to Mumbai get h2o during the 4 monsoon months, pursuing which potable h2o is transported and supplied to the metropolis passim the twelvemonth done a labyrinthine web of pipelines.
The authoritative day of monsoon withdrawal successful Mumbai is October 10.
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