After witnessing heavy showers over the past few days, rainfall intensity in the city is expected to reduce from Thursday onwards, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday.

The department had issued an orange alert for Mumbai, which remains active till Wednesday, when the city will witness heavy to very heavy rainfall. “An offshore trough and formation of a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal are causing rainfall in the Konkan region,” an IMD official told mid-day.