‘Conditions favourable’: Monsoon expected to arrive in Mumbai in next two days, says IMD | World News
A day after it downgraded its rainfall warning for Mumbai from ‘orange’ to ‘yellow’, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday announced monsoon will arrive in Mumbai over the next two days.
Shubhangi Bhute, director of IMD, Mumbai, on Saturday said during the next 24 hours, heavy rains will continue in Konkan and western Maharashtra along with several other dricts in the state.
“The conditions for arrival of the monsoon are now favourable in Maharashtra and onset is expected to happen in the next two-three days. Low pressure over the Arabian Sea has turned into a depression and is expected to enter Ratnagiri drict, so a red alert has been issued over there along with Satara and Kolhapur. Besides rainfall, there is a possibility of gusty winds reaching speeds of up to 50 kmph,” he said.
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The weather bureau, in its five-day forecast announced on Friday, has kept Mumbai and Thane under a yellow alert till May 28 (Wednesday), indicating moderate to heavy spells of rainfall coupled with thunderstorms and gusty winds. However, the IMD has kept Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg dricts in Konkan under a red alert for the next 24 hours indicating very heavy rainfall. The red alert is followed an orange alert extending till Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in western Maharashtra, a red alert has been sounded for the next 24 hours for the ghats of Satara and Kolhapur, followed an orange alert till May 27 (Tuesday).
Meanwhile, with monsoon yet to make landfall in the state and six days left in May, IMD records show Maharashtra has recorded the wettest monsoon in 35 years since 1990. Between May 1 and 23, Maharashtra recorded an area average rainfall of 79.6 mm, which is a massive 844 per cent surplus against the normal 7.9-mm average. Earlier, in 1990 the state recorded an area of average rainfall of 99.8 mm during the same period. The all-time highest was recorded at 113.6 mm in 1918.
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