City to get heavy rainfall for next 3 days
Mumbaikars will be able to enjoy heavy rainfall for the next three days. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has also issued a warning for heavy rainfall for the same period.
“The heavy rains are a respite from the humid climate which usually prevail in the city. We are glad that the weather has become cooler due to continuous heavy rainfall,” said Saylee Rajesh, a resident of Mulund.
The IMD officials have attributed the increasing rainfall activity to the upper-air cyclonic circulation over south of Rajasthan and a low-pressure area which is moving westward from Odisha.
On Monday, the Colaba observatory recorded at least 36mm of rainfall and at least 29mm of rainfall was recorded by the Santacruz observatory.
“There was widespread rainfall in the city and it will continue in a similar manner for next three days. The eastern suburbs of Mumbai received good rainfall as compared to other areas of the city,” said an IMD official.
The disaster management cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recorded at least 16.37 mm of rainfall in the eastern suburbs and at least 13.07 mm of rainfall in western suburbs of the city. There were no complaints of water logging received by the disaster management department.
The department also received four complaints of tree falling cases in the western suburb due to heavy rainfall. It also received two complaints of short circuit in the city and three on the central suburb on the same day.
The department also recorded one slab collapse on the central suburb and two on the western suburb. The officials also said that rain water also entered the changing room of a security guard which is located on the ground floor of the BMC main building which caused inconvenience to the security guards.