More rainfall in store, no sign of winter, says Met department

PUNE: The city received more than 8.4mm rainfall till 5.30 pm on Saturday due to a trough of low pressure from Lakshadweep area to south Gujarat. The met department forecast more rainfall or thundershowers in the next 48 hours for Pune.
The untimely rains started on Friday night and till 8.30 am on Saturday, the met office had recorded 15.7mm rainfall, taking the season's total from October 1 to 41.6mm.
Officials in India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that more rainfall is likely in other parts of the peninsula during the next 48 hours, including many places in Konkan, Goa, central Maharashtra, coastal Karnataka and a few places in Marathwada, Tamil Nadu, interior Karnataka and Kerala.
The forecast added that rainfall would also occur at isolated places in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Vidarbha in central India, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya in east India as well as Andaman and Lakshadweep during the next 48 hours.
Many met department stations in the state recorded rainfall on Saturday, including Nashik and Satara, which received 10mm and 23mm rain till 5:30pm respectively. Lohegaon received 9.4mm rainfall, Jalgaon and Kolhapur received 1mm rainfall each till 5:30 pm on Saturday, a met department forecast stated.
In Konkan and Goa, Mumbai received a miniscule 0.4 mm rainfall, Alibag received 1mm, while Osmanabad and Aurangabad received a significant amount - 31mm and 6mm respectively till 5:30 pm.
Aurangabad received 28.4mm, Kolhapur received 17.4mm, Ratnagiri received 23.4mm, while Satara received a whopping 40.5mm rain till 8:30 am on Saturday.
Another met department forecast on Saturday said that the trough in the lower level easterlies from Lakshadweep area to south Gujarat off the west coast now runs from southeast Arabian Sea to south Gujarat coast across east-central Arabian Sea. The forecast said that night temperatures were appreciably below normal in some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh as well as below normal in some parts of Bihar and Rajasthan.
It added that night temperatures were appreciably to markedly above normal in some parts west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada; appreciably above normal in some parts of east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Telangana and in remaining parts of east Rajasthan. They were above normal in some parts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Odisha, Konkan, Goa, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu and interior Karnataka.
A met department official told TOI that as of now, there is no sign of winter due to minimum temperatures being much above normal. "There seems to be no winter-like conditions at present with minimum temperatures being higher than normal," the official said.
At 20.6 degree Celsius, the minimum temperature in Pune was 5.9 degree above normal. The city's maximum temperature, however, came down considerably to 24.8 degree C on Saturday following the rainy spell.