Monsoon expected to advance in Mumbai next week
Monsoon expected to advance in Mumbai next week
With the delay in monsoon in the financial hub, Mumbai, Mumbaikars can expect the monsoon around 27 June.
With rising mercury breaking all records in half of the country, people have been pinning hopes on monsoon arrival for some relief. But the weather is playing truant. The delay is adding to the woes of people. Scanty rainfall filled June with disappointment in Mumbai.
As per Skymet Weather Agency, the city is expected to break all records of delayed monsoon as it is set to arrive by June 27.
In June as of now, the financial hub has received around 526.3mm of average rainfall
The city has measured only 17.1 mm so far, even though half of June has passed by. The last seven days were no different as Mumbaikars witnessed few showers during the period with a maximum of a mere 6 mm in 24 hours, according to the private weather forecasting agency. I
However, for the next seven days, showers are going to be far and few.
As per the revised dates, the monsoon was expected to arrive in Mumbai on June 11. Skymet
In the last week, Maharashtra has witnessed a large deficit of 80-90% rainfall. Mumbai is starving for rain in the first three weeks of June.
The record delay in the city was experienced in 2009, when monsoon arrived in Mumbai on 27 June. The delay was the result of El Nino. The condition was the culprit of delayed monsoons in 2012, 2014, and 2015.
This year, despite fulfilling all the preconditions of rainfall, typical monsoon rains remained absent in Mumbai. The delayed arrival of the monsoon in Kerala was further delayed by cyclone Biparjoy.
The cyclone has weakened to a depression, and its remnant is impacting rains in Rajasthan which is likely to extend to North Madhya Pradesh in the next two days. El Nino is hampering the South West monsoon to advance.
News input KV Raman
