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The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will get a cover of four new radars by the next year. The city required another radar in view of increasing numbers of high rises and obstacles in the monitoring weather. But this radar will help to observe Nimbus cloud which gives heavy rain," said K S Hosalikar, deputy director general, Western Region, IMD. Type X radars are already installed in the Himalayan region in view of the high-intensity rainfall and cloud burst that occur in those places. The BMC and IMD have set up 140 automatic weather stations in and around the city, and are now going to provide information Mumbai Weather Live app at every 15 minutes..