Even though Mumbai misses its monthly average rain for August, September commences on a positive note. With nearly one-third of normal rainfall for September received on the first day itself, Monsoon in Mumbai hopes to garner a big thumbs up.
Today, the maximum city of India opened its eyes to a spell of good rain which was 116 mm. Had this spell occurred one day earlier, Mumbai would have succeeded in covering its monthly average for August.
Despite the fact that it rained almost every day in August, the city of dreams failed to cover its monthly average. It only received 456.7 mm of rain as against the monthly average of 529.7 mm, thus falling short by 13 percent. However, the nearby cities including Goa and Ratnagiri received good rain showers for the same month.
The situation remained two-fold in Mumbai. On one side it rained almost every day in Mumbai, on the other not a single day received rain crossing a three digit mark. The highest during August was just on 1st August when Mumbai received rain of 88 mm.
Yet August 2014 was definitely better than the last two years as August 2013 recorded monthly rain of 256.3 mm and August 2012 recorded a total of 377.1 mm of rain.
While August was grim, July this year was still better as the city received record breaking rainfall of 1461 mm in July against the long period average of 800 mm.
Barring all of this, the skies in September will be open for downpour in Mumbai. So if August was not good enough, you can certainly go for walk down the promenades of Marine Drive.
