Sunday, June 12, 2011

Mumbai - Monsoon onset and Yesterday's super showers


In the 12 hrs ended 8.30 pm on Saturday, Mumbai Colaba received 102 mms and S'Cruz 181 mms.
A few showers of short duration on Saturday night.
Sunday: Cloudy, with short sunny intervals. Short duration showers.
Foot Note:
Vagaries had a query in the comments column a few days back. "Why does vagaries SWM advance dates differ from IMD"? I had explained my reasons and what parameters I refer to when doing this. In fact I repeated that i follow the norms as per IMD.
Mumbai SWM was advanced by IMD on 5th June. Vagaries advanced SWM into Mumbai on 9th June. Quoting below from the "Times of India", Dated 11th June, , page 2, (Mumbai edition) what weather officials at Colaba clarified:
Quote-"So despite the torrential downpour of June 2-3, Met officials insisted any rain before June 10 was a pre-monsoon shower. It was only on June 5 that an embarrassed bureau decided to announce that the monsoon had arrived. "Thundershowers usually indicate pre-monsoon activity but we had to make the announcement, or else people would say the rains were evidently here and we were ignorant," Sharma said". -Unquote

Taken from http://rajesh26.blogspot.com/

2 comments:

  1. Signature and beauty of Mumbai are its rains. Probably this must be highest recorded rain during start of june. Similar trend may follow for Gujarat like last year where kutch areas received 400mmm rain in 24 hours. Like last year will this year Maharastra,Gujrat,Pakistan
    receive exceptionally high rains??

    What about south, which is quite silent no rains. South interior karnataka like Bangalore,Mysore,Malnad regions which received very poor rains last year any hope this year??

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  2. Also we notice change in weather pattern for last 5 years wherein Maharastra, Gujarat-Rajasthan are no longer dry desert areas but receiving more and more rains. On other hand southern regions like rayalseema, interior karnataka, tamilnadu are slowly drying out -desertification.

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