Pune: The Meteorology Department of India (IMD) on Tuesday estimates convective rainfall in the city to Saturday and warns residents to avoid being outdoors during thunder and intense lightning activities.
On Monday night, the city was tied with a sharp rain spell.
But the amount of rain is different from one area to another.
For example, Lohegaon received the highest number at 37mm in 24 hours to 8:30 a.m.
on Tuesday, followed by Lavale (31.5mm) and Shivajinagar (29.8mm).
A most intense rain in various regions is concentrated in a period half hour to 45 minutes.
Anupam Kashyapi, Head of the Weather Forecasting Division, IMD-Pune, said, “This is a convective rain associated with local instability.
Moisture has achieved various parts of the country from South Maharashtra.
During the day, high temperatures, which can cause formation of cumulonimbus clouds, especially In the afternoon and curfew.
This cloud is a thunder cloud that causes convective rain.
such rain usually lasts for half an hour for up to one hour.
“Kashyapi said Pune City also had an estimate for most of the cloudy sky, becoming cloudy to afternoon and evening, Light to rain with roar and lightning activities for the next few days.
Monsun in Maharashtra is currently weak and no strong system is present to influence rain in the state.
“However, there is enough the amount of moisture that occurs above the country through the east winds that attract the moisture of the system above Bay bay To the southern Maharashtra of Bay Bay.
Another system, the circulation of the top air cyclone above the east Central Arab Sea, pumping moisture to our country, “he said.
The IMD still expects extensive rainfall in part of the state from October 5-9.
“There is also a densely insulated rainy warning for Konkan-Goa and Maharashtra Maharashtra until October 9.
The area of ​​Ghat Pune, Nashik Kolhapur, Sangli, Soldi, and Satara can also experience string and heavy rain isolated until October 9,” Kashyapi said.