Rain lashes Mumbai; MeT dept calls it pre-monsoon showers
Rains lashed Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Tuesday morning, bringing respite from the sweltering warmth, and the MeT division termed it as pre-monsoon showers. As per the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Mumbai, as much as 30 mm rainfall was recorded in areas like Malvani, Borivali and Dahisar right here until 11 am. Earlier, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday confirmed the arrival of the southwest monsoon in Maharashtra, when it had reached as much as Harnai port in coastal Ratnagiri district.
But, regardless of beneficial circumstances, the monsoon has nonetheless not progressed to Mumbai.
When contacted, Shubhangi Bhute, director on the RMC Mumbai, termed the current rainfall within the metropolis as “convective precipitation”.
“You can observe that there is thunder, lightning and a constant variation in the intensity of the showers. You can call it pre-monsoon showers, but certainly not the south-west monsoon,” she mentioned.
There aren’t any indications of the onset of the monsoon as but, the official mentioned.Â
“There needs to be much less variation and rains should be widespread (to be known as as monsoon showers). Apart from Mumbai, there ought to be rains over central Maharashtra additionally. Then solely we will establish it because the southwest (SW) monsoon, she mentioned.
The official additional mentioned going by the current observations, the SW monsoon onset right here might be declared after a few days- by June 10.
“There is also an off-shore trough in the Arabian Sea, but it is weak. Had it been strong, it could have helped in the advancement of the monsoon,” she mentioned.
(With PTI inputs)
