Heavy spells will continue...
After two days of relatively less rainfall, the city witnessed heavy showers once again on Friday. By Friday evening, Santa Cruz had recorded 91.5 mm of rainfall and the Indian Meteorological Department’s observatory in Colaba recorded a rainfall of 32.4 mm.
IMD also predicted that in the next 24 hours, the city would receive “intermittent rains and showers, with some moderate to heavy spells in the city and suburbs.”
According to the disaster control cell of the BMC, 10 areas in the island city reported water logging, whereas three areas in eastern suburbs and five in the western suburbs were water-logged.
Till Friday morning, the monsoon had already covered more than 16 per cent of the annual average rainfall. Colaba has received 359.5 mm, Santa Cruz has recorded 415.5 mm of rainfall since June 1.
Between morning and evening, the island city had received 73.4 mm of rainfall, while the eastern and the western suburbs had recorded 81.6 mm and 57.24 mm respectively.
The Met department has said that some weather conditions are coming together to ensure that the city gets heavy spells of rain in the next few days. “The offshore trough stretching from the Gujarat coast to the Kerala coast is still active,” said V.K. Rajeev, director of weather forecast, IMD, Mumbai.
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