Moderate Intensity Showers To Continue Over Mumbai: Weekend Likely To Be Better
Jun 18, 2025, 3:51 PM | Skymet Weather Team
Mumbai Rain, Image Courtesy: PTI
The intensity of monsoon showers has weakened a bit over the last 24 hours. Earlier, the city of Mumbai was lashed with heavy downpour on 15th and 16th June. Between 01st and 18th June, Santacruz observatory has accumulated a total of 316.7 mm of rainfall. It is well short of the monthly figure of 493.1 mm. Moderate showers interspersed with short-duration heavy spells are quite likely today and tomorrow. It may ease out a bit on the weekend.
There are two monsoon systems at this moment driving the seasonal rains. These systems are controlling the rainfall activity along the Konkan Coast also, including Mumbai. One low-pressure area is marked over parts of Southeast Rajasthan, and the other one over Gangetic West Bengal. Both these systems are having converging wind flow, accentuating weather activity over the respective areas.
Mumbai's weather is largely influenced by the monsoon systems coming up over the Bay of Bengal and moving inland across Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh. Any weather system over South Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh has the additional impact.
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Under similar conditions, Mumbai is likely to get weather activity in terms of moderate showers over the next two days. It may not be a typical Mumbai downpour to disrupt normal life, but one or two intense spells cannot be ruled out.
The weather system over West Bengal is tracking along the Indo-Gangetic plains. The other low-pressure area over Rajasthan is also likely to shift closer to Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, and the foothills of Uttarakhand. The two systems may merge sometime around 22nd June or so. The displaced position of these systems, far away from the coastal city of Mumbai, may soften its grip on weather activity after 48 hours. In the meantime, a fresh weather system is likely to come up over the North Bay of Bengal and Gangetic West Bengal on 24th June 2025. Its subsequent movement across the central parts of the country may once again revive the monsoon activity along the Konkan region. Must Read: Neutral ENSO, Negative IOD, Meandering MJO, Offer Weak Push For Monsoon
