Mumbai, Thane, Palghar districts under yellow alert till tomorrow: IMD
The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its five-day forecast issued on May 7 (Saturday) afternoon, has kept Mumbai, Thane, and Palghar districts under a yellow alert till 8.30 am on Sunday – indicating moderate to heavy rainfall to lash over the island city and suburbs.
Meanwhile, the Raigad and Ratnagiri districts of coastal Maharashtra have been kept under a yellow alert for the next 48 hours.
The weather bureau's forecast shows that no alert has been issued for Mumbai between June 8 (post 8.30 am) and June 11.
The rainfall is happening mainly due to the incursion of dry and moist winds, Sushma Nair, scientist at the weather bureau, told The Indian Express.
'There is trough that has developed and is running over Karnataka and Vidharbha region, for which there is an interaction of both moist winds and dry winds which usually leads to a favourable condition for rainfall. The maximum proportion of rainfall may occur between 3 pm and 5 pm today (June 7) for which we had issued a nowcast warning as well and after this duration, the rain will gradually recede,' Nair said.
The IMD's data, furthermore, shows that Mumbai's Santacruz observatory recorded 40 mm of rainfall till Saturday morning while the coastal observatory at Colaba had recorded 15 mm of rainfall. Furthermore, the BMC's automatic weather system (AWS) shows that on Saturday, the western suburbs recorded 18.67 mm of rainfall, followed by 8.98 mm in the eastern suburbs and 2.75 mm in the island city.
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