Monsoon officially bids adieu, but Mumbai to get 2 more days of rain

MUMBAI: The southwest monsoon may have officially completed its four-month cycle on Friday but that did not stop it from drizzling in the city on Saturday.

MUMBAI: The southwest monsoon may have officially completed its four-month cycle on Friday but that did not stop it from drizzling in the city on Saturday.

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As a result, the temperature dropped by almost 4 degree Celsius below normal. Weathermen expect the showers to continue for two more days.

Between 8.30am and 5.30pm on Saturday, the Santacruz weather station, representative of the suburbs, recorded 4.6mm rain while 2.4mm was recorded at Colaba. The suburbs also recorded some overnight rain as 4.2mm was recorded between 8.30am Friday and 8.30am Saturday. South Mumbai, however, recorded negligible rain in the last 24 hours.

According to the India Meteorological Department, the southwest monsoon officially ended on September 30. This year, however, it has withdrawn only till Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, for the western part of the country.

The showers caused a considerable drop in temperature . The suburbs recorded the day temperature at 27.8 degrees Celsius, which was 3.7 degree Celsius below normal. South Mumbai recorded maximum temperatures 3 degree Celsius below normal levels at 28.2 degrees Celsius.

“The typhoon in China has created a pressure gradient in the Bay of Bengal. As a result, there is a secondary weather system along the Konkan coast pulling moisture from the Arabian Sea,” said Shubhangi Bhute, director, Regional Meteorological Centre Mumbai.