Mumbai weather update: Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely today

Parts of Mumbai witnessed rainfall on Friday morning even as the India Meteorological Department IMD issued a yellow alert predicting heavy to very heavy showers at a few places in the metropolisThe 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 hoursHeavy rainfall in city and suburbs Possibility of very heavy rainfall likely at onetwo places towards eveningnight the BMC saidAccording to the Regional Meteorological Centre Mumbai City received 2501 mm of rain and eastern suburbs and western suburbs received 3670 mm and 5013 mm of rain respectively in the last 24 hoursA high tide of about 469 meters is expected to hit Mumbai at 310 pm today stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC The civic body also said that a low tide of about 131 metre is expected at 922 pm todayMeanwhile 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 PTIBut the region continues to have an overall rainfall deficit he saidThe highest rainfall since Wednesday morning 132 mm was recorded in Gangamasla circle of Beed districtAs many as 37 circles a circle comprising several villages received more than 65 mm of rainfall The Babra circle of Aurangabad recorded the lowest 6575 mm of rainfallDistrictwise number of circles receiving heavy rainfall in 24 hours Aurangabad3 Jalna 1 Beed 6 Latur 10 Osmanabad 2 Nanded 8 Parbhani 4 Hingoli 3As of Thursday Marathwada is facing a deficit of 368 percent compared to the normal Against the expected normal rainfall of 170 mm since June 1 it has received 1074 mm of rain the official told PTISince the onset of the southwest monsoon over Mumbai on June 25 the city has been getting heavy showers As per the India Meteorological Departments 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 29The monsoon is likely to be normal in July across the country barring parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh and south Bihar with abovenormal temperatures expected throughout the month the India Meteorological Department IMD saidAddressing a virtual press conference IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said the July rains will help wipe out rainfall deficiencies witnessed in JuneAs many as 16 states and union territories received deficient rainfall in June with Bihar and Kerala reporting large deficits at 69 per cent and 60 per cent below normal respectivelyLarge states such as Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Karnataka Jharkhand Andhra Pradesh and Telangana also received less rainfall than what is normal for June the first month of the southwest monsoon seasonWith inputs from PTI