Although the onset of monsoon has covered all of Maharashtra, it has so far remained soft for Mumbai and its neighbouring areas with scattered downpour in isolated places. After moderate ranifall in several parts of the city on Monday, Mumbai once again experienced a dry spell on Tuesday. Weather agency Skymet had predicted that there are chances of heavy to very heavy rains from June 15 to June 18 in several parts of the city.

Under the influence of these two systems:

i) Scattered heavy to very heavy falls and isolated extremely heavy falls over Konkan & Goa during next 2 days and isolated heavy to very heavy falls over Madhya Maharashtra during next 2 days.

— India Met. Dept. (@Indiametdept) June 16, 2020

On Tuesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted thunderstorm with lightning and gusty winds and heavy rainfall at isolated places in Mumbai and Thane districts till Thursday. The official release also stated that Mumbai and Thane may receive heavy heavy rainfall at isolated places on Thursday besides experiencing light to moderate rainfall on Friday.