Pre-monsoon showers lashed Maharashtra's Mumbai on Monday and were likely to continue Tuesday as well in the run up to the eagerly awaited official arrival of southwest monsoon to the city.
A nascent revival of the southwest monsoon over Maharashtra will likely take it over Mumbai in the next 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said, while clarifying that the rain received by India’s commercial capital on Monday were, in fact, pre-monsoon showers.
Mumbai and several other nearby districts of Maharashtra were under an IMD orange alerts on Tuesday for heavy rain as southwest monsoon approached.
According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) data, the city recorded an average rainfall of 17mm between 6am and 7am on Monday, while the western suburbs received 10 mm.
The revival of the monsoon, which had stalled last week, was accompanied by conditions favourable for further, albeit gradual, progress along the west coast and further inland towards central India, the IMD said.
