Mumbai rains: Borivali, Santacruz, Powai, Mulund, Chembur, Worli, Colaba, and Alibag are the eight Mumbai weather stations on red alert for Monday.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued orange and red advisories for various portions of the city and its suburbs due to heavy rain that hit the city late on Sunday.
Waterlogging also affected several areas of the city, causing traffic jams.
Around 3 a.m. on Monday, the weather office said on X that a “light to moderate spell of rainfall is likely to continue over Mumbai and suburban areas during the next 3-4 hours.”
“Generally cloudy sky with heavy rain” is the IMD’s weather forecast for the day. Monday is predicted to have a low temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and a high temperature of about 31 degrees Celsius. According to Mumbai’s weekly weather prediction board, there will be rain all week long.
IMD reports that on Sunday, May 25, a distinct low-pressure system was positioned over south Madhya Maharashtra and the surrounding regions of Marathwada and North Interior Karnataka. According to the report, the region is anticipated to shift eastward during the course of the following day before gradually losing strength.
According to the meteorological office’s forecast, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, will have light to moderate rainfall on a scattered to fairly widespread basis between May 25 and 27, coupled with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds.
Monday is an orange alert in the Madhya Maharashtra area, according to the regional meteorological office, which predicts “very heavy rain with thunderstorms and lightning, squall, etc.”
Borivali, Santacruz, Powai, Mulund, Chembur, Worli, Colaba, and Alibag are the eight Mumbai weather stations that are on red alert. An orange signal has been issued for the Navi Mumbai, Thane, and Kalyan weather stations.
The Raigad area is on red alert, according to Nowcast alerts. Monday is anticipated to see the highest surface wind speeds, along with moderate thunderstorms and significant rainfall, according to the IMD.
At the same time, the districts of Thane and Palghar are on orange alert.
Maharashtra’s southwest monsoon season
According to the meteorological office, the arrival of the southwest monsoon in Maharashtra on Sunday marked the earliest start of the state’s yearly rainfall season in 35 years.
Mumbai Rains: IMD Issues Red Alerts Amid Early Monsoon Onset
Over the following three days, the monsoon is predicted to move into Mumbai and a few other areas of the state, it continued.
News agency PTI quoted IMD scientist Sushma Nair as claiming that the southwest monsoon began over Maharashtra on May 20, 1999.
The southwest monsoon arrived early in Kerala on Saturday as well. It typically begins over Kerala by June 1 and moves on to Maharashtra by June 7 and Mumbai by June 11.
Early beginning and covering of wide regions on the first day itself is not unusual, according to M Rajeevan, a monsoon specialist and former secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
“A wider region in Karnataka and portions of Maharashtra was affected by the monsoon when it began in 1971. According to Rajeevan, the current active monsoon conditions will last until at least June 2 and will aid in the progress of the monsoon into Maharashtra and the eastern regions of the nation.
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