Mumbai woke up to yet another day of overcast skies and heavy downpour on Tuesday as the India Meteorological Department’s Colaba station clocked in over 94 mm rainfall between Monday and Tuesday morning. The downpour is slated to continue in the metropolis and its neighbouring districts with the IMD issuing a yellow alert in Mumbai from Wednesday (July 24) until Friday.
Data furnished by the weather department showed that while Colaba received heavy downpour of nearly 100 mm, the Santacruz recording station registered 42 mm rainfall during the same period. In light of the heavy downpour, civic data showed that 55 incidents of partial house collapses, tree falls as well as short circuits were reported in the city in 24 hours ending Tuesday morning. Of these, the city witnessed 10 incidents of partial wall collapses while 34 incidents of tree collapses were noted.
As the day progressed, the intensity of showers subdued with the IMD’s Colaba observatory recording 14 mm and Santacruz registering 16 mm rainfall between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm.
Owing to the situation, the IMD has issued a yellow alert in Mumbai starting Wednesday until Friday, with the weather bureau indicating the possibility of “heavy to very heavy rainfall” in isolated pockets. In Raigad district, the IMD sounded a red alert for Wednesday while an orange alert was issued in Thane district.
So far, the Santacruz station has recorded 1,797 mm rainfall since the onset of monsoon in June, of which the city received 1,450 mm rain in July alone. The Colaba station received 1,715 mm rain with over 1,208 mm rainfall registered in July.
With this, the city has received over 75 percent of its annual average rainfall quota. For perspective, Mumbai receives an average of 2,318 mm rain in the four monsoon months spanning June to October. Amongst them, July is the harbinger of the highest quantum of rain when an average of 855 mm rain is typically received in the city.
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