MUMBAI: The city can expect some relief from the hot and dry weather conditions as the Met department has forecast rain to pick pace again from the weekend. A ‘yellow’ alert for July 10-11, indicating heavy rain at isolated places is likely for Thane and Mumbai. There’s an ‘orange’ alert for Raigadfor July 11, indicating likelihood of ‘heavy to very heavy rain’ at isolated places.
On Wednesday morning, several areas of Mumbai and Thane recorded a shower for a brief while, but it quickly subsided and cloudy skies persisted through the day. Rainfall recorded during a nine-hour span on Wednesday — 8.30am to 5.30pm — by the Colaba observatory was ‘nil’ while Santacruz observatory recorded 0.9 mm of rainfall.
In the 24 hours between July 6-7 (8.30am-8.30am), the Colaba observatory recorded 15 mm of rainfall and Santacruz observatory recorded 17.9 mm of rainfall. The total rainfall recorded so far since June 1 by the Colaba observatory has been 714.6 mm and Santacruz observatory is 987 mm.
Lakes supplying water to the city have water stock of 2.66 lakh million litres (18.44% of required stock). Last year, it was 2.04 lakh million litres.
