The city of Mumbai has been witnessing heavy rainfall for quite some time now. These rains started to lash the City of Dreams from July 14 onward.
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The last 24 hours was also of no difference for the glamourous city. In a span of 24 hours from 8:30 am on Thursday, Santa Cruz observatory witnessed a good 41 mm of rain, while the Colaba observatory recorded rainfall to the tune of 18 mm.
These showers can be attributed to the low pressure area that is over Kutch region. Another low is marked over West Madhya Pradesh. Along with this, the off shore trough extends from South Gujarat to Kerala.
Take a look at the live lightning and thunderstorm status across Mumbai
As per Skymet Weather, the intensity is likely to reduce, however light to moderate rains will continue over Konkan and Goa including Mumbai. One or two places over Mumbai may also receive heavy falls.
Weathermen foresee as the intensity of rains will now lessen thus there would be some relief from the heavy showers and water logging that brought normal life to some extent at halt.
So far in the month of July, Mumbai has recorded a whopping 722.5 mm of rain against its monthly average of 799.7 mm of rain. With about nine days left, the city is likely to surpass its monthly mean easily.
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