Fishermen on the Namkhana harbor in South 24 Parganas district on Monday. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)
THE DOPPLER radar—which surveys climate patterns, and forecasts— located at Colaba continued to stay suspended. The radar put in in 2010 on the Regional Meteorological Center in Colaba in South Mumbai has seen frequent breakdowns within the final 4 years and has remained defunct since July, the beginning of the monsoon season this 12 months. However, the IMD maintained that the forecast was not impacted by the defunct radar.
IMD points pink alert; metropolis ​​sees solely mild rain
EXTREMELY HEAVY rains had been anticipated to lash a number of elements of Mumbai on Monday because the climate division issued a ‘pink alert’ for the day. However, solely mild rainfall was recorded until Monday night.
Explaining the impression of improper forecast and alert, a senior BMC official mentioned, “As per the protocol of pink alert, we’re required to ship out blast SMS asking folks to not enterprise out and step out provided that crucial. In addition, Emergency Support Function (ESF), ie, navy, Fire Brigade, NDRF, and Railways are on alert and standby mode till the alert is lifted. All the trouble goes waste due to a improper forecast.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
