MUMBAI: Even as several parts of the city recorded heavy, overnight rains accompanied by thunder activity, the IMD has issued a yellow alert, indicating heavy rains at isolated places for the next two days in Mumbai and adjoining Palghar, Thane and Raigad. The intense rain activity also saw the lakes almost being filled to the brim with water stocks rising to 99.22% on Monday.
While the IMD Santacruz observatory recorded 71.5mm of rainfall in the 24 hours ending 8.30am on Monday, the Colaba observatory recorded 57mm in the same period.
Throughout Monday, however, the rain receded considerably as the IMD Colaba observatory recording a meagre 0.2mm of rains while the IMD Santacruz observatory recorded only 5.8mm in the nine hours ending 5.30pm.
With a yellow alert in place for the next cou ple of days, the lakes are likely to be filled to its full capacity. The lakes need to have 14.47 lakh million litres by the end of the month to meet the city’s water requirement till next monsoon. The current stock of water stands at 14.36 lakh million litres as against 14.22 lakh million litres recorded on the same date last year.
“Southwest monsoon has been active over Konkan and the cyclonic circulation now lies over east Rajasthan and neighbourhood,” said IMD.