Most parts of the state have received good rainfall in the early days of the 16-week-long monsoon season this year which got underway in the past 10 days. Not willing to let nature’s bounty go waste, farmers across the state have got down to the business of sowing seeds in farmlands in the past few days. Last year, the farming community barring those in Konkan and Vidarbha regions had borne the brunt of the worst-ever water scarcity experienced in the past 40 years.

According to the data provided by India Meteorological Department (IMD) at Pune, a small coastal tourist resort town of Murud, famous for the Janjira sea fort, notched a staggering 24 cm rain in the past 24 hours, making it the heaviest rainfall in the state. Other places which received heavy rains included Palghar (16 cm), Mhalsa (15cm), Pen (14), Kinwat (12), Harnai (11), Thane, Roha and Panvel (10 each), Uran, Shrivardhan, Dapoli (9 cm each), Jalna, Matheran (8 each).