City may witness rains today

Even as the experts and weathermen are busy trying to forecast the date when monsoons will hit Mumbai, the city is likely to experience increasing rainfall starting Thursday, and this might continue till the onset of monsoon in the city.

In fact, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued warnings of heavy to very heavy rains at a few places and extremely heavy fall at isolated places on June 10 and 11. "City is most likely to begin experiencing rains from Thursday and the intensity is likely to increase. As of now, it seems that monsoon will hit Mumbai around June 13 or 14," said an official from IMD Mumbai.

Meanwhile, Skymet weather, a private forecasting agency, too claimed that the strong surge of westerly winds seen across the Konkan region will lead to intensification of rains and thunder showers across Coastal Maharashtra, including Mumbai, which will witness heavy to very heavy rains between June 9 and 12.

Mahalaxmi based Rajesh Kapadia an enthusiast who has been in the field of weather forecasting for over 45 years now and also runs the popular blog Vagaries of Weather said that as per his own observation the monsoon should be reaching Mumbai around June 11 or 12. "I am not a scientist but for several decades have been observing weather as an enthusiast and have learned a lot of things on the way. It seems to be a good monsoon for Mumbai as well as the State this year," he shared.