Konkan and Goa Region Under Orange Alert as Intense Monsoon Downpours Prepares to Sweep Mumbai

This Week With Goa and the Konkan area joining a handful of areas witnessing more than seven-hundred mm of rainfall this monsoon season so far, new forecasts have already anticipated bountiful rains to hold battering the area over this week as well. 

Mumbai witnessed very to extraordinarily heavy rainfall last week, with Colaba recording a whopping 228 mm on Thursday — one of the heaviest single-day rainfall in July because 2014. Parts of the city witnessed more than three hundred mm of rainfall on Thursday and Friday. 

After a short respite over the weekend, rains are probable to heighten once more this week. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), sturdy winds will probably dump moisture westwards over this coast during this week. According to forecast models, the Konkan area can anticipate rainfall accumulation of at least two hundred mm by Friday. 

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Under these conditions, isolated regions of Goa and the Konkan belt can anticipate heavy rainfall lashings for the subsequent 5 days. In addition, significant rainfall observed by thunderstorms and lightning is probable to consume the location until Friday at the least. In light of these circumstances, the complete area will continue to be on an orange alert till Friday, advising citizens to ‘be prepared for potentially risky weather occurrences. 

To be more specific, each North and South Goa may be at the same orange alert until Wednesday, and then it’s far probable to be eased into a yellow watch (meaning ‘be updated’) until Friday. IMD predicts that each district will probably see heavy to very heavy rainfall until Wednesday. As for the rest of the Konkan coast, the districts of Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg may be on an orange alert until Wednesday, and then Palghar will even share the identical alert until Friday. 

Thane and Mumbai, however, will continue to be on yellow watch throughout this time period. The IMD predicts heavy rains to lash isolated regions of Mumbai until the weekend, even as a few regions can also add even enjoy very heavy rains from Wednesday. The rest of the city will keep experiencing mild rains, they indicated. Since the start of June, Mumbai together has experienced around 588 mm of rain, which is around 12-14% low common. 

While this quantity of rainfall is distinctly normal, elements of the towns like Santa Cruz still be afflicted by extensive seasonal rainfall deficiency. Meanwhile, those common rainfall stats additionally extend to the rest of Goa and the Konkan coast, with the complete area recording 711 mm of rainfall since June 1, which is a 17% decrease from the 852 mm it typically gets during this time period.