Rains return to Mumbai today, providing relief from the heat
Meanwhile, an orange alert has been sounded by the IMD for Pune and Satara districts in western Maharashtra and Amravati, Bhandara, Chandrapur and Gondia districts in Vidarbha.
Mumbai got its first rain of the season on Saturday, and showers are forecast for the next few days.
At Santacruz, another meteorological station, it had rained a record 59 mm in a period of 24 hours. At the Colaba observatory, the rainfall had been more moderate, measured at just 14 mm. Courtesy the BBC, we now know that Mumbai had experienced within four hours on 26 July 2005, as much rain as it normally gets over an entire 40-year period.
Santacruz and Colaba observatories record rainfall for suburbs and island cities, respectively.
Over the past few days, rising temperatures and humidity have inconvenienced citizens.
On 24 August, Harnai in the district of Ratnagiri, and Dahanu in Palghar district towards the north received 116 mm and 143 mm, respectively.
Rain also lashed Marathwada, in central Maharashtra. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar got 43 mm, Nanded received 48 mm, and Parbhani a healthy 55 mm.
For the next four to five days, at least, Mumbai and its neighbouring districts of Thane and Palghar, and much of Maharashtra, will face Nearly 40 mm of rainfall per hour in some places, according to an IMD forecast issued on Friday.
The IMD also issued an orange alert for the western Maharashtra districts of Pune and Satara as well as for Amravati, Bhandara, Chandrapur and Gondia districts of Vidarbha for Saturday.
Oranges are given when the rainfall is projected to be in excess of 64.5 mm in a period of 24 hours and normal activities are likely to be disrupted, leading to flooding in low-lying areas.
In some districts, the thunderstorms along with lightning and light to moderate rainfall and gusty winds at a speed of 30 to 40 kmph are forecast for Saturday without any cloudbursts. However, a few districts in western Maharashtra, Marathwada will be excluded.
On 25 and 26 August, the IMD issued an orange alert for some Konkan and western Maharashtra districts.
Over the next two days, a low-pressure area along the foothills in northern West Bengal and northeast Jharkhand and another in the east central Arabian Sea off the Maharashtra coast will bring rain to several areas of the state.