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| PC: Yogesh S |
Though late by over a week, the Southwest
monsoon has covered entire Maharashtra, bringing isolated rain over the region
on Saturday. Pune city too reported light rain at isolated places, with parts
of Pimpri-Chinchwad, Wakad, Solapur Road, Viman Nagar and some areas near
Shivajinagar recording few spells of rainfall in the evening.
Elsewhere in the state, heavy rainfall was
reported along the Konkan coast, including in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg regions.
Moreover, it was a wet day for Mahabaleshwar, where 61mm rainfall was recorded,
Nashik (55mm) and some neighbourhoods in Madhya Maharashtra too received heavy
rainfall since Saturday morning.
Officials at the India Meteorological
Department (IMD), Pune, have hinted at monsoon to get active after June 26 over
the region.