City gets rain but no respite from heat, humidity

 

Mumbai: The city is witnessing slightly heavier showers, but temperatures refuse to dip much. On Saturday itself, with 36.6 degree Celsius, Colaba witnessed the highest June temperature in the last 10 years, and high temperatures continued till Monday.
    Highest temperature so far was 36.1 degree Celsius in June last year, overtaken four days in a row on June 4, 5, 6 and 7 this year with maximum temperatures hovering between 36.4 and 36.6 degree Celsius.
    Santa Cruz too recorded its highest maximum temperature on June 1 with 35.7 degree Celsius, a record on par with the highest maximum in June 2007.
    However, after Monday, the temperatures seemed to have come a bit under control. “With the infrequent showers on and off in the city, the temperatures are bound to dip a bit. But it still doesn’t mean that the monsoon is here. These are still only pre-monsoon showers,’’ maintain officials at weather bureau.
    According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the monsoon didn’t move much beyond Banglore in Karnataka and Cuddapah in Andhra Pradesh in the south on Wednesday, where it was reported to have been on Tuesday. The IMD predicts that there may be scattered rainfall in Mumbai for the next two days.
    “The monsoon will take another two to three days to arrive in Mumbai. Until then, there will be scattered showers,’’ said an IMD official.
    Incidentally, 0.3 mm rainfall was recorded in Colaba and 72 mm recorded in Santa Cruz over Tuesday night. Though the weather remained cloudy during the day on Wednesday, there were however, only traces of rainfall recorded in Santa Cruz while Colaba remained dry till 8.30 pm. The maximum temperature in Colaba on Wednesday was 34.2 degree Celsius with relative humidity of 71%, Santa Cruz recorded 33.9 degree Celsius with 69% relative humidity.