Residents of Mumbai woke up to heavy rainfall early on Saturday after which the Indian Meteorological Department issued a ‘yellow alert’ for the city. The IMD had forecast that the southwest monsoon, which has been delayed by more than a week, would reach the city today. Usually, the monsoon begins in Mumbai in the second week of June. The MeT department, on Thursday, said monsoon is likely to reach Mumbai by June 24, however, it is yet to make a formal announcement for the same.
The IMD announced that light to moderate rain is likely to occur in isolated areas of Raigad, Thane, Palghar, and Mumbai in the next 3-4 hours.
“Light to moderate spells of rain are likely to occur at isolated places in the districts of Raigad, Thane, Palghar, and Mumbai during the next 3-4 hours,” ANI quoted IMD.
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On Thursday, the IMD had said that conditions are favourable for monsoon to move toward the districts and that monsoon will reach Mumbai on June 24.
Several parts of South India are seeing continuous rainfall with the onset of monsoon and the delayed effects of the convection conditions according to the weather department, which has issued a rainfall and thunderstorm warning for the next few hours in certain states on Tuesday.
Already, the southwest monsoon has advanced to some more parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Central and Northwest Bay of Bengal as well as some parts of Gangetic West Bengal and Jharkhand some more parts of Bihar, and remaining parts of Sub- Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on June 19, IMD stated.
The MeT department said that the southwest monsoon was in the process of resuming its trajectory after Cyclone Biparjoy. The delay in monsoon resulted in a rainfall deficit for some of the Southern states, and thus more rainfall is expected as the southwest monsoon continues to make its way across the states, IMD said earlier.