07 July,2023 12:12 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The India Meteorological Department's (IMD) regional centre for Mumbai has issued a 'yellow alert' for Friday, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places.
From July 8-10, Mumbai is likely to see moderate rainfall, the IMD said.
Parts of Mumbai witnessed rainfall on Friday morning. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday said heavy rainfall in the city and suburbs with a possibility of very heavy rainfall likely at isolated places" in the next 24 hours.
"Heavy rainfall in city and suburbs. Possibility of very heavy rainfall likely at one/two places towards evening/night," the BMC said.
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According to the Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai City received 25.01 mm of rain and eastern suburbs and western suburbs received 36.70 mm and 50.13 mm of rain respectively in the last 24 hours.
A high tide of about 4.69 meters is expected to hit Mumbai at 3.10 pm today, stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The civic body also said that a low tide of about 1.31 metre is expected at 9.22 pm today.
Meanwhile, rains lashed isolated places in all eight districts of the Marathwada region of central Maharashtra in the 24 hours ending on Thursday morning, an official told the news agency PTI.
But the region continues to have an overall rainfall deficit, he said.
The highest rainfall since Wednesday morning -- 132 mm -- was recorded in Gangamasla circle of Beed district.
As many as 37 circles (a circle comprising several villages) received more than 65 mm of rainfall. The Babra circle of Aurangabad recorded the lowest 65.75 mm of rainfall.
District-wise number of circles receiving heavy rainfall in 24 hours: Aurangabad-3, Jalna- 1, Beed- 6, Latur- 10, Osmanabad- 2, Nanded- 8, Parbhani- 4, Hingoli- 3.
As of Thursday, Marathwada is facing a deficit of 36.8 percent compared to the normal. Against the expected normal rainfall of 170 mm since June 1, it has received 107.4 mm of rain, the official told PTI.
Since the onset of the southwest monsoon over Mumbai on June 25, the city has been getting heavy showers. As per the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) data, the city has received more than 95 per cent of the rainfall recorded this month in just six days - between June 24 and 29.
(With inputs from PTI)
