Heavy pre-Monsoon showers lash Mumbai, many areas waterlogged

India’s biggest cosmopolitan city Mumbai received Heavy rainfall late on Thursday night causing waterlogging and traffic jams in many localities.

During the last 24 hours from 8:30 am on Wednesday, while the Colaba observatory remained dry, the Santa Cruz observatory witnessed 0.2 mm of rain.

The rainfall in Mumbai is due to Pre-Monsoon rainfall activity for at least two to three days.

At present, a trough is running from Maharashtra coast to the Kerala coast. Due to this, moisture incursion has been taking place in the western coast. In fact, Panjim in Goa has recorded a whopping 141 mm of rainfall along with Ratnagiri recording 134 mm of rainfall. 

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