IMD issues yellow alert for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar

The India Meteorological Department IMD in its latest Mumbai weather update on Friday has issued a yellow alert for the city as well as neighbouring Thane Raigad and Palghar districts The weather bureau stated that the city and the suburbs will receive Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning light to moderate rainfall and gusty winds 3040 kmph at isolated placesIt further said that Mumbai will see a partly cloudy sky with possibility of rainthunderstorm towards eveningnightFor the weekend IMD has issued a green alert for Mumbai and said that the city is very likely to receive light rainthundershowers The yellow alert for Thane Palghar and Raigad has not been changed for the weekend eitherThe maximum temperature would be 34 degrees Celsius and minimum is expected to be 26 degrees Celsius IMD statedOn Thursday evening heavy rains had battered Mumbai creating waterlogging in various areas Elphinstone Road and NM Joshi Marg in Prabhadevi were particularly hard hit with commuters straining to negotiate flooded streets People scrambling to cross soggy roads were seen in images from these places reflecting the impact of the downpour on daily lifeThe rain caused the temperatures to dip slightly on Friday morning The maximum temperature recorded by the Colaba Observatory of India Meteorological Department was 305 degrees Celcius which was 21 degrees lower than the normal temperature Similarly Santacruz recorded a temperature of 325 degrees Celcius which was 14 degrees lower than normal temperatureThe relative humidity is expected to be 77 per centMumbai weather updates Citys AQI remains goodOn Wednesday October 9 the Central Pollution Control Boards SAMEER app in its latest Mumbai weather updates said the citys air quality dipped to the good category with an Air Quality Index AQI of 99 on Friday morningUnlike its streak so far many areas across Mumbaimdashper the SAMEER app dashboardmdashshowed moderate AQI However Shivaji Nagars AQI had slipped further into the poor category at 203Meanwhile Byculla and Chembur recorded moderate air quality with an AQI of 121 and 103 respectively Colaba recorded good air quality with an AQI of 70 Borivali recorded an AQI of 95Navi Mumbai according to data collated by the SAMEER app which had been recording good air quality also slipped to moderate with an AQI of 133 Meanwhile Thane too recorded a moderate AQI of 119The air quality index from 0 to 100 is considered good 100 to 200 moderate 200 to 300 poor 300 to 400 very poor and from 400 to 500 or above severeMeanwhile as air pollution levels continue to rise in Mumbai the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC has revised guidelines issued last year for construction sites The civic body will also form squads at the ward level to visit construction sites and act if guidelines are flouted Sensorbased air pollution monitoring systems will be installed at all construction project work sites and immediate action to be taken if pollution levels are detected above the limit