After Monday’s orange alert and a five-hour red alert issued under the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) nowcast warning, Mumbai is now on a yellow alert for Tuesday and Wednesday. The forecast indicates heavy rain with thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds reaching 40–59 kmph.
For the remainder of the week, till Friday, IMD has placed the city under a green alert, suggesting rainfall will ease in the second half of the week. Other coastal districts of Maharashtra, including Ratnagiri, Palghar, and Thane, are also on yellow alert for Tuesday and Wednesday. Sindhudurg is on green alert, while Raigad has been issued an orange alert for Tuesday.
A red alert was issued on Monday for rain. PIC/ASHISH RAJE
According to IMD, Mumbai can expect 65–115 mm of rainfall, classified as “heavy rain,” along with the possibility of localised waterlogging. In the 24 hours between Sunday and Monday, Colaba recorded significantly more rainfall than Santacruz, with 134.4 mm compared to 73.2 mm.
The city also reported a maximum temperature of 29°C in the same 24-hour period — a drop of about 4°C compared to last Monday’s 33°C. Residents experienced noticeably cooler weather, especially at night. Sunday’s temperature was about 1–1.5°C below normal for the season. In the 10 hours between 8 am and 6 pm on Monday, the Island City recorded 32 mm of rainfall, the Eastern Suburbs recorded 31 mm of rainfall, and the Western Suburbs recorded 37.59 mm of rainfall.
Additionally, in the 24 hours from 8 am on Sunday to 8 am on Monday, the Island City recorded 119.29 mm of rainfall, the eastern suburbs recorded 75.98 mm of rainfall, and the western suburbs recorded 77.02 mm of rainfall. The areas that recorded the highest amount of rainfall during this time were Worli, Dadar, Colaba in the Island City, Mankhurd in the Eastern Suburbs, and Bandra and Kurla in the Western Suburbs, according to information from BMC.
Vehicles move through waterlogged JP Road at Versova, Andheri West, after heavy rain on Monday. Pic/Satej Shinde
So far this monsoon, the Santacruz weather station has recorded 88.50 per cent, or 1854 mm of rain in comparison to the annual average rainfall of 2095 mm, and the Santacruz weather station has recorded 120.15 per cent, or 2,786.3 mm of rainfall in comparison to the annual average rainfall of 2319 mm.
No untoward incident was reported in the city, but three instances of tree collapses were recorded, apart from 6 short circuits. September this year has recorded over 300 mm of rainfall across Mumbai, in comparison to the annual average rainfall for this month, amounting to a out 500 mm, according to BMC data.
