Mumbai weather update: City to witness hot, humid conditions; air quality remains satisfactory

Mumbai and its suburbs are expected to experience mainly clear skies along with hot and humid conditions on Monday according to the India Meteorological DepartmentThe weather department has forecast a maximum temperature of around 36 degrees Celsius and a minimum temperature of 26 degrees Celsius indicating warm weather conditions across the city throughout the dayMumbairsquos air quality remains stableMumbairsquos overall air quality continued to remain in the ldquosatisfactoryrdquo category on Monday with the city recording an Air Quality Index AQI of 75 according to data from the Central Pollution Control Boardrsquos Sameer AppSeveral air quality monitoring stations across the city also reported AQI levels within the satisfactory rangeAQI levels recorded across city areasAmong key locations in Mumbai Bandra Kurla Complex recorded an AQI of 107 while Borivali East registered 101 Byculla reported an AQI of 88 and Andheri East recorded 101Chembur logged an AQI of 89 while Colaba reported 54 Ghatkopar recorded an AQI of 104 and Malad registered 58Air quality in Mumbai Metropolitan RegionIn the Mumbai Metropolitan Region MMR Thane recorded an AQI of 88 while Kalyan registered 137 Navi Mumbai reported an AQI of 115Despite variations across locations air quality in Mumbai and adjoining regions continued to remain largely stable with no major weather or pollutionrelated concerns reportedAbovenormal heatwave days likely in parts of India in May IMDEarlier the India Meteorological Department IMD had said in its monthly forecast that abovenormal heatwave days are likely in some parts of the foothills of the Himalayas east coast states Gujarat and Maharashtra in MayThe department also highlighted that the rainfall averaged over the country as a whole during May is most likely to be above normal with the onset of the southwest monsoon over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands expected around May 1416Director General of Meteorology IMD Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said During May 2026 minimum temperatures are expected to be above normal across many parts of the countryHowever many areas of northwest India along with some parts of central India and adjoining areas of peninsular India and southern parts of northeast India are likely to experience normal to belownormal minimum temperatures he said in a statementRainfall in May is most likely to be above normal over India barring some parts of east northeast and east central India where belownormal rainfall is expectedOn the onset of the southwest monsoon Mohapatra said The monsoon may arrive over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands around May 1416Currently El Nino Southern Oscillation ENSOneutral conditions over the equatorial Pacific are evolving towards El Nino the periodic warming of waters in the central Pacific Ocean conditionsThe latest Monsoon Mission Coupled Forecasting System forecast indicates the development of El Nino conditions during the southwest monsoon season according to the IMD