Overview
- The Shivajinagar observatory recorded 508.9 mm of rain by 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, marginally surpassing the July 1907 total of 508.5 mm reported by the IMD.
- Meteorologists say a southward monsoon trough, a deep depression tracking west-northwest, upper-air cyclonic circulations and a western disturbance combined to sustain heavy rains.
- The RMC Mumbai and IMD have issued colour-coded warnings with yellow alerts for Pune and orange alerts for ghat areas on July 30 and 31, and they expect active monsoon conditions to persist for the next few days.
- Persistent July downpours have caused waterlogging, traffic disruption, temporary closure of several ghat routes and controlled releases from multiple dams in Pune district.
- Officials caution that station totals are time-sensitive and that continuous Shivajinagar records exist only since 1969, so comparisons with the 1907 benchmark carry historical and data-compilation caveats.