Three-day orange alert issued for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad

MUMBAI: With monsoon current active once again, the IMD has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad, indicating heavy to very heavy rains at isolated places for three days starting July 11.
For Saturday, the IMD has forecast heavy rains at isolated places in city and adjoining areas. The IMD said isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely over Maharashtra between July 9 and 13, while extremely heavy rainfall is also likely over ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra on July 12 and 13.
Meanwhile on Friday, even though the nine hours ending 5.30pm saw meager rain activity in the city, significant rainfall was recorded in the city between July 8-9 (8.30am-8.30am) with the IMD Santacruz observatory recording 72mm of rain which falls in the heavy rain category as per IMD classification (heavy rainfall: 64.5mm-115.5mm).
The total rains recorded since June 1 by the Colaba observatory is 756mm and Santacruz observatory is 1061.3mm which is 51.3mm below normal and 278.4mm above normal, respectively.
Meanwhile, the active monsoon spell needs to bring in some cheer for the lakes supplying water to Mumbai as they currently have total water stock of 2.61 lakh million litres or 18% of the total required stocks. Last year, the total stock on the same date was around 2.89 lakh million litres or 19.98% of the required stock.