City gets 98% of July rain within 14 days
MUMBAI: With 86.6 mm rain in a span of 12 hours on Tuesday, Mumbai received almost its entire July rainfall in just two weeks while surpassing half its seasonal rainfall target in oneand-a-half months.
Between July 1 and 8.30pm on July 14, Mumbai recorded 822 mm rain (97.7%) against the monthly target of 840.7mm. South Mumbai recorded 595.5 mm rain during the same period against the monthly average of 711.6 mm or achieved 84% of its target so far.
Meanwhile, the suburbs and south Mumbai both recorded heavy showers with a few intense spells from Tuesday afternoon onwards. Between 8.30am and 8.30 pm, Santacruz recorded 86.6 mm rain while 50.4 mm was recorded in Colaba. For the period June 1 to July 14, Mumbai suburbs and south Mumbai have recorded 28% and 26% excess rainfall than the normal for this period.
An orange alert for ‘heavy to very heavy rain at a few places’ has been issued for Wednesday. A yellow alert (heavy rain at isolated places) has been issued for Thursday while no alert for Friday has been issued yet.
KS Hosalikar, deputy director-general, western region,
India Meteorological Department (IMD), said, “Dense cloud cover witnessed on Tuesday is expected on Wednesday as well will lead to a few intense spells of rain for the Konkan coast, including Mumbai, and parts of central Maharashtra.”
Meanwhile, waterlogging was reported in Parel, Matunga, King Circle, Sion, Andheri, Bandra, Chembur, Govandi, Wadala, Kurla and Dadar for a couple of hours on Tuesday. While some of the routes of BEST buses were diverted, suburban railways remained uninterrupted.