With favourable conditions for monsoon building, the city and most parts in Pune district have been reporting continuous rainfall for the past three days. (Express Photo by Ashish Kale) THE INDIA Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday announced the southwest monsoon’s arrival over Pune. This is among the most early-realised arrivals of monsoon in the recent years over Pune, where June 10 is the usual onset date.
With favourable conditions for monsoon building, the city and most parts in Pune district have been reporting continuous rainfall for the past three days. Heavy rainfall was reported during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, with Lohegaon station recording 60.5 mm in the past 24 hours.
Including Sunday’s advancement, it will be for the fourth straight day when the monsoon made steady and swift progress. At present, it has reached Alibaug. This means the onset of monsoon over Mumbai will take a while, unless there is enhancement in the rainfall activity combined with the development of favourable conditions during the remaining hours on Sunday.
With the monsoon now active over most of the southern districts of Maharashtra, the 24-hour rainfall recorded on Sunday were 32 mm in Satara, 28 mm in Mahabaleshwar, 21 mm in Sangli, 11 mm in Harnai, 8 mm in Dahanu and 4 mm in Solapur.
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