With 218.6 mm of rainfall in Colaba and 215.6 mm in Santa Cruz on Wednesday, Mumbai saw the heaviest rainfall of the season. Colaba covered 10 per cent of its average monsoon rainfall just in a day.
The above rainfall recorded was from Tuesday 8 am to Wednesday 8 am.
Colaba has already covered 78 per cent of the annual average rainfall of 2,220 mm. Santa Cruz on the other hand, has covered 73 per cent of 2,598 mm of the annual average. With more than two months of the monsoon remaining, the rainfall is set to be more than normal this year.
According to weather experts, the quality of monsoon depends on a few climatic parameters.
“Monsoon is a complicated global system which depends on parameters such as the jet stream effect or the Indian Ocean dipole effect. Sometimes even El Nino affects it negatively,” said N.Y. Apte, deputy director general of Indian Met Department, Mumbai.
On Wednesday however, between morning and evening, Colaba had recorded only 12.7 mm, while Santa Cruz had received 16.1 mm of rainfall. Incidentally it was contrary to the Meteorological department’s warning of the day before which predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall.