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Heavy rains are likely to hit Mumbai on Thursday as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar, along with several districts like Raigad, Ratnagiri, Kolhapur, Satara and Boldhana warning of heavy rain.
The IMD has also issued a red alert for Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts between July 6 and 7. “Today will be mostly scattered bouts of rain,” Sushma Nair, a scientist at IMD Mumbai, told The Indian Express on Wednesday.
The International Institute for Democracy (IMD) issued an orange alert for Mumbai and Thane on Wednesday as well, however, the alert was later downgraded to a yellow alert status.
“As for Thursday, the conditions are more favorable to experience heavy to very heavy rains in Mumbai,” Nair said.
Meanwhile, independent weather experts said the heavy rains will be the result of multiple weather phenomena developing over Maharashtra as well as in the west coast and southwest.
Mahesh Palawat, weather forecaster and meteorologist from SkyMet, said Mumbai will receive a peak of heavy rainfall on July 7.
“There is a low pressure formation that has developed in the Arabian Sea as it moves towards the west, as well as a cyclonic formation that has developed over Gujarat along with a small trough in coastal Karnataka. These factors will intensify the weather pattern which will lead to more torrential to very heavy rains which Mumbai hits between 6th and 9th July.
Meanwhile, over the past 24 hours, IMD’s Santacruz Observatory recorded 90 mm of rain, while the coastal observatory in Colaba recorded 33 mm.
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