Key Points
Mumbai on Thursday recorded its single-day highest rainfall during April, as the city experienced heavy pre-monsoon showers, coupled with lightning and thunderstorms, during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday..
Earlier, the highest amount of rainfall recorded by this observatory was 7.4 mm on April 22, 1974...
However, the IMDs coastal observatory at Colaba didnt record any rainfall since the island city experienced light showers, which didnt reach the measuring limit..
The all-time highest rainfall recorded by the Colaba observatory was 37.3 mm on April 18, 1947...
Mumbai had recorded its wettest March with 16.6 mm of rainfall being recorded by IMDs Santacruz observatory between March 20 and 21, this year..
