The calm is coming to an end, and there will be more rain pain this week. Meteorologists and weather observers predict that starting from Tuesday, Mumbai and adjacent areas will usher in moderate to extremely heavy rains. According to officials of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), rainfall activity will reappear between August 11 and August 15. IMD officials said there is a possibility that medium to heavy showers may hit Mumbai and the suburbs again.

“We don’t expect the rainfall to be as great as we saw last week, but the possibility of flooding in low-lying areas cannot be ruled out during this period,” an IMD official said. Even after the intensity of the rain weakened this weekend, light showers and thundershowers continued in Mumbai and its suburbs. Experts on the Skymet website, a private weather forecasting agency, said that in the past 24 hours, Colaba and Santacruz observatories both recorded 12 mm of rain. “We don’t expect much rainfall in Mumbai and its neighboring areas on August 10, but a short-term local area cannot be ruled out in the city. Temperatures in Mumbai and suburbs may rise slightly, again leading to muggy weather conditions. The monsoon surges.

Mumbai and neighboring areas are expected to be active again around August 11. It is expected that rainfall activities in Mumbai and the suburbs will also increase by August 11,” Skymet quoted experts as saying. At the same time, the self-taught meteorologist Rajesh Kapadia said: “Monday to Wednesday, Mumbai will witness increased rainfall, cloudy skies and frequent showers, not long and non-continuous, but intermittent. The rainfall will be intermittent. Including some heavy rains and normal monsoons.” Another independent weather enthusiast, the “Indian Weatherman” wrote on Twitter: “Rain activity will increase from August 11th. Rainfall will be the highest from August 12th to August 15th. Total rainfall should More than 400 mm”. Indian meteorologists further tweeted: “Last week Mumbai’s rainfall exceeded 600 mm.

This week’s rainfall is unlikely to exceed 600 mm. Rainfall in Mumbai and the suburbs will again exceed the surrounding areas. Mumbai’s seasonal rainfall has already exceeded. Our rainfall until September is 30 times a year. The Santacruz Observatory has recorded 2507 mm and the Colaba Observatory has recorded 2441 rains. The catchment area/lake has reached 49% of its full capacity. Given that there will be two back-to-back low pressure zones, too On August 20, the rainfall in Mumbai should exceed 3000 mm, and the catchment area should span 70%.” Although the city needs to store 1,447.363 billion liters of water to provide the city with one year’s water supply, as of August 9, the storage of living water was 731.283 billion liters (about 6 months of water storage).

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