MUMBAI: After almost two weeks of intense rain activity, Mumbai can expect drier days ahead as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast light to moderate rain.
The IMD on Saturday said that due to the west north westward movement of a low pressure area, a gradual reduction in rain activity is expected.
In the 24 hours till 8.30am on Saturday, the weather bureau’s Colaba observatory recorded 13.2 mm and Santacruz 5.9 mm of rainfall. But rainfall in the interiors was much higher: Karjat recorded 134 mm, and the hill station of Mahabaleshwar 321 mm. Matheran, another hill station, recorded 81 mm.
The total rainfall recorded so far at Colaba and Santacruz are 1488.4 mm and 2026.7 mm, which are 379.8 mm and 877.3 mm above normal, respectively. Throughout Saturday, light rain was recorded across the city and the suburbs.
The IMD said that on Sunday, light to moderate rain and thundershowers is expected in Mumbai, with the possibility of occasional intense spells.
The currently prevailing weather systems that are giving Mumbai these showers include a trough which runs from the cyclonic circulation associated with the low pressure area to the north Gujarat region across Madhya Pradesh, a well marked low pressure area over Jharkhand and adjoining areas of north Chhattisgarh and Odisha, which now lies as a low pressure area over Jharkhand and adjoining north Chhattisgarh, with an associated cyclonic circulation and an offshore trough at mean sea level, which now runs from the Karnataka coast to the Kerala coast.
“Due to the west-northwestward movement of the low pressure area, a gradual reduction in rainfall activity is expected over Maharashtra during the next four to five,” said IMD.
