Mumbai may get heavy rain today, says IMD

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MUMBAI: Incessant downpour over the weekend led to the second highest 24-hour July rain over the past five years in the city.

After three days of heavy to very heavy rain, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) revised its forecast for Monday by issuing a yellow alert for all Konkan districts, including Mumbai, and predicted the possibility of heavy rain across isolated areas. Earlier, the weather bureau had not issued any warning for Monday.

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“Models have indicated moderate rain with intermittent heavy rain to continue on Monday but the intensity of rain is likely to be lesser than Friday to Sunday,” said KS Hosalikar, deputy director general, western region, IMD.

Between 8.30am on Saturday and 8.30am on Sunday, Santacruz weather observatory, representative of the suburbs and Mumbai, recorded 200.8mm rain, falling under the ‘very heavy’ category.

Colaba weather station, representative of south Mumbai, recorded 129.6mm rain during the same period.

Last year, the city had recorded 375.2mm rain on July 2, which is the highest 24-hour July rain since 2015. In 2018, it was 184.3mm on July 10, 163.4mm in 2017 on July 18, 114.5mm in 2016 on July 30, and 61mm in 2015 on July 21.

Over the past decade, however, more rain was recorded in 2013 (215.6mm on July 24) and 2014 (207.2mm on July 3). The alltime high 24-hour July rain was recorded on July 27, 2005 that led to 944.2mm.

On Sunday, the suburbs woke up to intense heavy rain with 95.4mm over a span of 3-hours

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Panvel (8.30am to 11.30am) that later increased to 103.9mm over 12 hours (8.30am to 8.30pm).

South Mumbai recorded intermittent light showers of 11.2mm during the same time. Majority of Sunday’s rain was concentrated towards parts of the suburbs, central Mumbai, and outskirts. Thane recorded 179.4mm rain.

Over the past 60 hours (8.30am Friday to 8.30pm Sunday), Mumbai suburbs recorded 461.7mm rain while south Mumbai recorded 309.2mm rain.

Thane recorded the highest rain across the Konkan region and the state over 24-hours at

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(July 27) 377mm, which falls under the exceptionally heavy category.

“North Konkan, including Mumbai, witnessed an active phase of the southwest monsoon over the past three days with continuous showers and extremely heavy rain in some areas. The impact of widespread rain activity led to overall excess rainfall for majority of the weather stations,” Hosalikar.

Independent meteorologists said weather systems responsible for heavy rain over Mumbai were expected to move northwards towards south Gujarat leading to decline in rain intensity.