The western coast of the country generally receives good rains during the Southwest Monsoon season. The stations lying along the western coastline, right from Gujarat to the pockets of coastal Kerala contributes the most rainfall during Monsoon season.
The same happened on the last day as well when most of the coastal stations recorded Monsoon rains. However, the intensity of these rains varied from being light to getting heavier and extremely heavy in a few pockets.
In the last 24 hours, from 08:30 am on Monday, Valsad recorded the heaviest spell of the day at a gigantic 291 mm, followed by Mahabaleshwar at 167.6 mm, Dahanu at 146 mm, Honavar 101 mm, Ratnagiri 71 mm, Mangaluru 70.6 mm, Mumbai’s Santa Cruz observatory recorded 53 mm of rains, Colaba 46 mm, Kochi 34 mm, Kozhikode 29 mm, Karipur 24 mm, Karwar 18.7 mm, and Harnai witnessed 6 mm of rains.
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The reason for these heavy to extremely heavy showers along the West Coast can be associated with the offshore trough running along the coastline from South Gujarat to Coastal Kerala. In addition to this, the cyclonic circulation is also persisting over South Gujarat and adjoining North Maharashtra coast which aided in these rains.
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As of now, Skymet Weather predicts the rains to continue occurring over the West Coast for another 24-36 hours as the cyclonic circulation would continue to prevail over the region.
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