After hovering above 30 degrees for the past one week, daytime temperatures are bound to fall after the city experienced good rainfall on Thursday.
<img title="Yesterday&rsquo;s downpour saw the city folk recoiling into their monsoon gear and trudging through flooded roads. Pics/Sharad Vegda" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/sep/Monsoon-1.jpg" alt="Yesterday&rsquo;s downpour saw the city folk recoiling into their monsoon gear and trudging through flooded roads. Pics/Sharad Vegda" /> Yesterday&rsquo;s downpour saw the city folk recoiling into their monsoon gear and trudging through flooded roads. Pics/Sharad Vegda
Colaba recorded a maximum daytime temperature of 29.4 degrees while Santacruz recorded 31.5 degrees. The meteorological department has forecast daytime temperatures to be less than 31 degrees for the next 48 hours.
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Rainfall was experienced in Andheri, Malad, Dahisar in the western suburbs and some parts of Kalyan, Thane, Dombivli. Until 6 pm on Thursday, the island city had experienced 3.6 mm rainfall, eastern suburbs had 12.79 mm and western suburbs had 10.05 mm.
The IMD has predicted &lsquo;a few spells of rain and thundershowers&rsquo; for the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, the catchment area of lakes also received good rainfall as follows: Modak Sagar (34 mm), Tansa (23 mm) and Middle Vaitarna (36 mm) until 6 pm on Thursday.
This might help resolve the current water cuts of 30% being faced by residential areas and 50% borne by commercial establishments.
Official speak &ldquo;This is monsoon itself and not retreating monsoon. There were fears of the retreat starting sooner, but that will not happen. The retreat will start only after September-end. People can expect this respite for the next few days,&rdquo; said V K Rajeev, regional director, IMD.

The met department has forecast spells of rain and thundershowers for the next 24 hours; it says that this is monsoon itself and not the feared &lsquo;retreating monsoon&rsquo;

Monsoon pays a visit to rain-starved Mumbai

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