MUMBAI: For yet another day city witnessed pre-monsoon showers. However, unlike on Thursday, parts of the island city also recorded rain accompanied by thunder activity on Friday.
On Thursday the suburbs witnessed two heavy rain spells while the island city was comparatively dry. According to IMD’s 24-hour forecast ending at 8.30am on Friday, IMD Santacruz observatory recorded 15.5 mm of rainfall while the Colaba observatory recorded no rain.
For the weekend, IMD has issued a yellow alert for the city, indicating thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds at isolated places being very likely.
The Met on Friday said that the southwest monsoon has further advanced into some more parts of central Arabian sea, entire Goa, some parts of Konkan and some more parts of Karnataka. The official onset date of the monsoon over Mumbai is June 11.
Rain recorded in the city helped reduce night temperature which was almost nearing 30 degrees.
The India Meteorological Department’s Santacruz observatory on Friday recorded minimum temperature of 25 degrees while the observatory at Colaba recorded 26.7 degrees.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/met-issues-yellow-alert-for-city-this-weekend/articleshow/92138636.cms
