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Pune: Met dept forecasts light to moderate rain for a week

PUNE: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast an increase in rainfall for the Madhya Maharashtra region — including Pune city — over the next week.

“Madhya Maharashtra and its surrounding areas will receive light to moderate rainfall over the next week, accompanied by thunder and lightning activity,” an IMD official said, adding that added that isolated areas in the Western Ghats will also receive heavy rainfall over the same period, at least till August 14.



The city and the region received mostly light rainfall on Saturday — till 5.30pm, Shivajinagar received 0.3mm and Lohegaon got 0.2mm. The light showers were accompanied by thunder and gusty winds.

During the same window, the hill station, Mahabaleshwar, recorded the highest rainfall in Madhya Maharashtra at 11mm.

Mahabaleshwar also recorded the lowest maximum and minimum temperatures in the state, at 19.8°C and 17.9°C respectively. Others parts of Madhya Maharashtra, such as Sangli, Satara, and Kolhapur districts, too received light rainfall ranging from 1 to 2mm. Humidity also remained high on Saturday, with relative humidity being recorded at a maximum of 85%, with the minimum being marginally lesser, at 82%.

The rainfall scenario was the same in the Konkan region as well, with the Santacruz station recording 4mm, and Dahanu receiving 9mm — the highest rainfall in the region,

Other parts of the state, such as Marathwada and Vidarbha, largely remained dry, with isolated light rain recorded in Buldhana and Nagpur.

Earlier this week, TOI had reported that the four dams that supply water to Pune — Khadakwasla, Varasgaon, Temghar and Panshet — were filled to just 33% of their capacity and that Pune Municipal Corporation was considering alternate day water supply.

This was caused by scanty rainfall last month. July 2020 was the driest for India in the past five years, with the entire country collectively received 257.1mm rainfall as against a normal of 285.1mm for the month, a deficit of 9.8%. In July 2015, India had received 240.8mm of rainfall.

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