Mumbai rains: Sunday showers may be on the cards, says IMD

Mumbaikars enjoy the cloudy weather and gusts of wind at Marine Drive on Saturday. Pic/Atul Kamble

Even as the monsoon made an early landfall in Kerala yesterday, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thundershowers in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) today.

With the monsoon arriving a week early this year, it is expected to reach Goa and southern Maharashtra in the next two to three days.

Meanwhile, the weather department has reported that a low-pressure area well-marked over the east-central Arabian Sea, off the Konkan Coast, intensified into a depression in the early hours of May 24.

The depression, slowly moving east, is expected to result in heavy rains in Maharashtra today, particularly in the Konkan region and adjoining ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra.

Authorities have cautioned this may lead to urban flooding, landslides, damage to crops, and disruption of transport and municipal services.

Ports have also been instructed to hoist Cautionary Signal No.3, which the IMD uses to signal Potential hazards.