Maharashtra Weather: Parts of Mumbai Continue to Recieve Heavy Rainfall on Friday – News18

Heavy rains lashed parts of Mumbai today (June 14) morning including the Eastern Expressway. As per media reports, the temperature in Mumbai today is 29.55 °C. The day’s forecast predicts a minimum temperature of 26.99 °C and a maximum temperature of 29.81 °C.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had earlier issued a warning and predicted thunderstorms with moderate to heavy showers in Mumbai throughout this week. The department had issued a red alert for heavy rainfall in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg, an orange alert for Ratnagiri, and a yellow alert for Palghar, Thane, Mumbai, and Raigad.

As per a press release issued by RMC Mumbai on Thursday, Mumbaians can expect a partly cloudy sky with the possibility of light rain in the city and suburbs in the next 48 hours. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 34 deg. C. and 27 deg. C, respectively.

Monsoon arrived in Mumbai on Sunday (June 9), two days ahead of the normal schedule, due to favourable conditions along the Maharashtra coast, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The city got 50 millimetres of rain in a 24-hour period that ended on Monday morning, officials told PTI. Following heavy rains on Sunday, there was water-logging in many areas like Byculla, Sion, Dadar, Mazgaon, Kurla, Vikhroli, and Andheri, severely impacting vehicular movement and causing long traffic jams. Local train services were also delayed as water accumulated on tracks at some locations, officials had told the agency.

Due to the heavy showers, a part of the road in the neighbouring Palghar district of Maharashtra caved in, affecting traffic movement on the busy Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway for more than four hours on Sunday morning, they said. In the 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Sunday, Thane city received 37.06 mm rainfall.