Weathermen issue orange alert for Mumbai on monday; yellow alert for thane, palghar | Mumbai News – Times of India
MUMBAI: The city may see a wet week ahead with an orange alert issued by the IMD for Mumbai, Raigad for July 1, Monday.
An orange alert indicates heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places. IMD officials said that with the strengthening of westerly winds, good rains can be expected on July 1. Meanwhile on the same date i.e. July 1 for Thane and Palghar a yellow alert has been issued indicating heavy rainfall at isolated places.
In the past few days the city has witnessed regular rain activity, IMD officials said that the monsoon has finally well established itself in the city after its onset on June 9 .
“The strengthening of the westerly winds and an offshore trough establishing in the Arabian sea we expect that rain activity would pick up next week,” said an IMD official.
In the 24 hours ending 8.30am on June 29 the total rainfall recorded by the IMD Colaba observatory was 25.2 mm and IMD Santacruz observatory 33.4 mm.
The total rain recorded this month by the IMD Colaba and Santacruz observatory has been 491.2 mm and 321.7 mm respectively.
With water stocks in the lakes supplying to the city’s needs being at a three year low, good rainfall is much needed to ensure that the city administration is not forced to levy a further water cut. Currently Mumbai is reeling under a 10% water cut.
As on June 29 , the water level at 6am, was 78,579 million litres with the BMC not supplying water from the reserve stocks that it has received from the government.
Last year on the same date water stocks were 1.29 lakh million litres.
The sustained rain activity has helped in bringing both the maximum and minimum temperatures below 30 degrees.
The IMD Colaba and Santacruz observatory on Saturday, recorded maximum temperatures of 28.8 degrees and 29.6 degrees while the minimum temperatures recorded by IMD Colaba and Santacruz observatory was 26 degrees and 26.6 degrees.
An orange alert indicates heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places. IMD officials said that with the strengthening of westerly winds, good rains can be expected on July 1. Meanwhile on the same date i.e. July 1 for Thane and Palghar a yellow alert has been issued indicating heavy rainfall at isolated places.
In the past few days the city has witnessed regular rain activity, IMD officials said that the monsoon has finally well established itself in the city after its onset on June 9 .
“The strengthening of the westerly winds and an offshore trough establishing in the Arabian sea we expect that rain activity would pick up next week,” said an IMD official.
In the 24 hours ending 8.30am on June 29 the total rainfall recorded by the IMD Colaba observatory was 25.2 mm and IMD Santacruz observatory 33.4 mm.
The total rain recorded this month by the IMD Colaba and Santacruz observatory has been 491.2 mm and 321.7 mm respectively.
With water stocks in the lakes supplying to the city’s needs being at a three year low, good rainfall is much needed to ensure that the city administration is not forced to levy a further water cut. Currently Mumbai is reeling under a 10% water cut.
As on June 29 , the water level at 6am, was 78,579 million litres with the BMC not supplying water from the reserve stocks that it has received from the government.
Last year on the same date water stocks were 1.29 lakh million litres.
The sustained rain activity has helped in bringing both the maximum and minimum temperatures below 30 degrees.
The IMD Colaba and Santacruz observatory on Saturday, recorded maximum temperatures of 28.8 degrees and 29.6 degrees while the minimum temperatures recorded by IMD Colaba and Santacruz observatory was 26 degrees and 26.6 degrees.
