This story is from July 20, 2019

Mumbai: Cloudy skies, light rain likely over the weekend

Mumbaikars are likely to witness partly cloudy skies with light rain in the city and suburbs over the weekend, forecasts IMD. At 36.2 degrees Celsius in Santacruz on Friday, the city registered the highest maximum temperature ever for July since the introduction of record-keeping for mercury levels.
Mumbai: Cloudy skies, light rain likely over the weekend
In 2018, the highest maximum temperature recorded in July was 33 degrees Celsius on July 2
MUMBAI: Mumbaikars are likely to witness partly cloudy skies with light rain in the city and suburbs over the weekend, forecasts IMD.
At 36.2 degrees Celsius in Santacruz on Friday, the city registered the highest maximum temperature ever for July since the introduction of record-keeping for mercury levels.
The highest maximum temperature for July before now was 34.8 degrees Celsius on July 22, 1960.

The maximum temperature on Friday was six degrees above normal and a very steep rise compared to the previous day, when the maximum recorded by the IMD Santacruz observatory was 32.7 degrees Celsius.
The maximum temperature recorded at the IMD Colaba observatory was 32.6 degrees Celsius. Weathermen pointed to the high humidity levels for the sudden rise in the maximum temperature.
The humidity levels recorded on Friday by the IMD Santacruz observatory was 64% and IMD Colaba observatory was 71%.
Last year the highest maximum temperature recorded in July was 33 degrees Celsius on July 2.
Weathermen also pointed to the absence of rainfall for the rise in temperature. “It was a difficult day for Mumbaikars with cloudy evenings, high humidity and steep rise in temperatures,” K S Hosalikar, deputy director-general (meteorology), Regional India Meteorological Department, said.
The minimum temperature was also on the higher side. Colaba recorded 26.5 degrees Celsius and Santacruz, 26.6 degrees Celsius.
The onset of the monsoon was declared on June 25 in the city and, barring the last few days of June and the first few days of July, the city remained comparatively dry. The total rain recorded since June 1 at Colaba was 981.5 mm and at Santacruz, 1,440 mm.
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