Rain respite likely today, to pick up after Tuesday

After two days of over 100 mm of intense rainfall, the city saw reduction in showers on Saturday except for a few sudden rain bursts. While Sunday is expected to see reduction in rain activity, weathermen have forecast an increase once again next week around July 7-9.

- Richa Pinto

In the 24 hours ending 8.30am on Saturday the rainfall recorded by the IMD Colaba observatory was 32.2 mm while the Santacruz observatory recorded 105 mm. In the 24-hour period prior to this, the Colaba and Santacruz observatories recorded 228 mm and 175.5 mm of rainfall.

This takes the total rain recorded over a two-day span to over 200 mm-260.2 mm by Colaba observatory and 280 mm by the Santacruz observatory. On Saturday, there were passing showers, however no areas witnessed continuous downpour.