Mumbai: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted that Mumbai and it's metropolitan regions will continue to recieve light to moderate rainfall this week. After the early onset of monsoon on Monday, May 26, the city recieved heavy downpour in first two days of monsoon and continued with scattered rainfall rest of the week.

As per the local weather forecast for the next 48 hours, Mumbai city and suburbs will witness partly cloudy sky with possibility of occasional light rain/thundershowers accompanied by gusty winds. The maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 33°C and 26°C.

On Sunday, after a break of two days, the city recieved briefly heavy rainfall at isolated locations. The suburbs recieved more showers than the city. The areas which received high rainfall in the last 24 hours as per disaster management data included: Mankhurd (27 mm), Vikhroli (18 mm), Mulund Check Naka (20 mm), Ghatkopar Ramabai Nagar (20 mm), BKC (19 mm), Kurla (19 mm), Bandra (16 mm), Juhu (13 mm) among others.

As the IMD's district weather forecast from June 1 to June 5, no warning has been issued for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar districts. However, Yellow Alert is issued for Thane for June 5. 

Although, there are no warnings for heavy rainfall issued for Mumbai and Maharashtra in the next couple of days, the IMD Monsoon Outlook for June has forecasted 'Above Normal' rainfall.

In its report, the IMD highlighted that 'Quantitatively, the southwest monsoon seasonal rainfall over the country as a whole is likely to be 106% of the Long Period Average (LPA) with a model error of ±4%, indicating that above normal rainfall is most likely over the country as a whole during the monsoon season.

The outlook for June 2025 says the regions in Maharashtra like Konkan, which consists Mumbai and it's metropolitan regions, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada and Vidharbha will recieve above-normal rainfall. As per the report, for Konkan region (Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg) for which normally range of monsoon rainfall is 2871 mm, is expected to witness Above Normal with 107% of the LPA.