Mumbai weather update: Moderate to heavy rainfall likely today, says IMD

The India Meteorological Department IMD in its latest Mumbai weather update has predicted a generally cloudy sky with intermittent spells of moderate to heavy rain in Mumbai on SundayThe weather department in its latest Mumbai weather update has predicted a generally cloudy sky with intermittent spells of moderate to heavy rain in city and its suburbs in the next 24 hoursThe maximum temperature in the city is likely to settle at 33 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature will be recorded at 26 degrees CelsiusA high tide of about 445 metres is expected to hit Mumbai at 120 pm today stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC The civic body also said that a low tide of about 168 metres is expected at 727 pm todayThe island city recorded 4751 mm of rainfall eastern Mumbai 3623 mm and western Mumbai 1960 mm of rainfall in the 24hour period ending at 8 amMeanwhile heavy rainfall across large parts of India has compensated for the June deficit bringing the overall monsoon precipitation into the surplus categoryAccording to the India Meteorological Department IMD more spells of heavy to very heavy rain are likely over northwest India and the western parts of the peninsular India during the next twothree days and over the northeast during the next five daysIndia the worlds top producer of critical crops such as rice wheat and sugarcane logged a rainfall deficit of 11 percent in June with northwest India recording a shortfall of 33 per centHeavy rain in the first week of July compensated for the shortfall but caused flooding in many northeastern statesSince the fourmonth monsoon season began on June 1 the country has received 2149 mm of rainfall against a normal of 2133 mm according to IMD dataNorthwest India and the southern peninsula have recorded 3 per cent and 13 per cent abovenormal rainfall respectivelyThe heavy rain in the east and northeast region has reduced the deficit from 13 per cent on June 30 to zero on July 6The rainfall deficit in central India has decreased from 14 per cent to 6 per cent during this periodThe IMD data showed that 23 per cent of the subdivisional area of the country experienced excess to large excess rainfall 67 percent received normal rainfall and only 10 per cent experienced deficient rainfallAfter making an early onset over Kerala and the northeastern region on May 30 and progressing normally up to Maharashtra the monsoon lost momentumThis delayed the rains in West Bengal Jharkhand Bihar Uttar Pradesh Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and exacerbated the impact of a scorching heatwave in northwest IndiaMonsoonal winds stalled from June 10 to June 18 and made slow progress until June 2627 The annual rainbearing system covered a major part of northwest India after June 25 according to IMD data