Flying into the Eye of Hurricane Erin 

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Category 5 Hurricane in Atlantic

Hurricane #Erin in the Atlantic is now Category 5 (140 knots). It intensified explosively from Category 1 (65 knots) to Category 5 (140 knots) in a span of just 24 hours. 

This is now the strongest cyclone on Earth in this year till date. Source: NHC, JTWC

Mumbai Rainfall on 16th August 8.30am -5.30 pm  

Santacruz: IMD: 20 mms  

Colaba: IMD: 39 mms

Grant Road: 55 mms

MCGM: 44 mms

Vagaries Club: 40 mms

Nana Chowk : 30 mms

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Mahabaleshwar: 88 mms

Jor: 76 mms

First double century rain In Mumbai for the monsoon season 2025

Mumbai recorded extremely heavy 245 mm rain in the last 24hrs.

This is the highest 24 hrs rain recorded in Mumbai in August after 2020. Also, this is the first double-century rain in 24hrs in this monsoon season.

24hrs highest August rain in the last 13 years:

2025: 245mm

2024: 96.8mm

2023: 44.6mm

2022: 123.6mm

2021: 52.2mm

2020: 268.6mm

2019: 216.4mm

2018: 24.7mm

2017: 331.4mm

2016: 141.7mm

2015: 22.3mm

2014: 88.1mm

2013: 92.3mm

Data: IMD

Posted 15th Evevning:

Very Heavy rainfall expected in Konkan, Goa and Ghats from 16th - 18th.

Heavy rainfall in Gujarat Region on 18th ( Surat,Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bharuch).

Mumbai: Rainfall frequency increasing from 16th and very heavy showers on 17th/18th. Orange Alert for 17th/18th with localised flooding.

Pune: Frequent showers, with some heavy falls on 17th/18th.

Goa: Very heavy showers on 17th/18th.

Effect of Westwards movement of BB 8.

14th August 

Extreme heat

Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe

14th day temperatures 👇

In Croatia, air temperature records were set in Šibenik, at 39.5C, and Dubrovnik, at 38.9C, while large forest fires raged along its coasts and ripped through neighbouring countries in the Balkans.

The day before, Hungary broke its daily maximum temperature record when a weather station in Körösladány hit 39.9C. The capital, Budapest, also broke its daily maximum record as it sweltered through 38.7C heat.

Courtesy The Guardian.com

 14th August 

Report and details of Sambhajinagar region ...Phulambri Circle

आजपर्यंत स्थानिक पावसाची एकूण संख्या.

बाबरान सर्वाधिक आणि आलँड सर्वात कमी उभी पिके खूप चांगली आहेत, परंतु ४ दिवस ५०-७० मिमी पेक्षा जास्त पाऊस पडण्याची अपेक्षा आहे. गरज नाही, परंतु पाणी आणि विहिरींच्या पातळीसाठी चांगले आहे.