Heavy Monsoon rains to the tune of 133 mm have triggered a flood-like situation in Chandrapur district of Vidarbha. In fact, it has been one of the heaviest spells in the last decade. Other cities in Maharashtra such as Gadchiroli and Nashik too have experienced heavy Monsoon showers. Mahabaleshwar with 235 mm of rains has been observed as the rainiest place in the country for the second consecutive day.
In fact, due to heavy rains over the past five days, the Maharashtra Irrigation department released 1,000 cubic foot per second water from Gangapur Dam into the Godavari river on Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, moderate to heavy rains have occurred in Konkan and Goa and Madhya Maharashtra. Places such as Kolhapur, Satara, Pune, Nashik, and Jalgaon were the ones to witness heavy downpour. The region of Marathwada too has observed good amounts of rain in the past 24 hours.
Talking about rainfall data, Matheran has recorded 151 mm of rains, Bramhapuri 101 mm, Thane 97 mm, Kolhapur 87 mm and Satara 67 mm in the last 24 hours from 8:30 am on Monday.
According to Skymet Weather, moderate to heavy rains will continue in Vidarbha and Marathwada for another 48 hours. And moderate rain with one or two heavy spells may lash South Konkan and Goa. However, rains will continue with reduced intensity over North Konkan and Goa including Mumbai now.
After 48 hours, rains will taper in many parts of Maharashtra. However, around August 1, the fresh Monsoon surge will once again increase the intensity over north Konkan and Goa, but Mumbai will continue to experience moderate showers only.
The last week of July has been very good for entire Maharashtra in terms of rainfall activities. And we expect on and off rains to continue in the first week of August as well. The rain surplus of Konkan and Goa, as well as Madhya Maharashtra, has increased and these two divisions are in excess rainfall category now. The ongoing heavy showers will help Vidarbha to soon enter into the normal rain category, while the rain deficiency of Marathwada would surely come down.
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