Mumbai weather update: City to see moderate to heavy rainfall today

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The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its latest Mumbai weather update, has predicted a generally cloudy sky with the possibility of moderate to heavy rain in Mumbai on Friday.

The weather department, in its latest Mumbai weather update, has predicted a "generally cloudy sky with possibility of moderate to heavy rain in the city and its suburbs" in the next 24 hours.

The maximum temperature in the city is likely to settle at 33 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature will be recorded at 26 degrees Celsius.

A high tide of about 4.31 metres is expected to hit Mumbai at 11.45 am today, stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). While another high tide of about 3.67 metres is expected to hit the city at 11.33 pm. The civic body also said that a low tide of about 2.06 metres is expected at 5.49 pm today.

Meanwhile, civic officials said that some northern areas of Mumbai's western suburbs received triple-digit rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended on Thursday morning.

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official told PTI that heavy rains lashed areas stretching from Malad to Dahisar in western suburbs since Wednesday morning. Several localities in the belt received more than 100 mm of rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 8 am on Thursday.

The Eksar area in Borivali (West) recorded the highest rainfall in the period at 140.6 mm, followed by Magathane 139 mm, Borivali (East) 133.6 mm, Dahisar 130.4 mm and Malvani 126.4 mm, the official told PTI.

As compared to western suburbs, the island city and eastern suburbs of the financial capital received comparatively less showers during the period, he said.

Pratiksha Nagar in the island city recorded 36.6 mm rainfall from Wednesday 8 am to Thursday 8 am, while Tagore Nagar in Vikhroli in eastern suburbs registered 48 mm showers, the official told PTI.

The IMD announced the onset of southwest monsoon over Mumbai. The IMD had reported that the southwest monsoon has advanced to parts of the central Arabian Sea, south Maharashtra, Telangana, south Chhattisgarh, south Odisha, and more areas of coastal Andhra Pradesh.

This year's Monsoon onset was two days earlier as the usual date of the onset is on June 1. This year, Kerala experienced widespread pre-monsoon rains.

After the onset of monsoon over Mumbai on June 9, ahead of the normal date of its arrival on June 11, the rains had stayed away from the metropolis for the last two days, turning the weather in the metropolis sultry.

(With inputs from PTI)