Summary:
In what provided a major respite from the heat and humidity on Tuesday evening, several parts of Mumbai as well as neighbouring areas including Navi Mumbai, Kalyan and others witnessed heavy thundershowers bringing the temperatures down. According to weather observers, the entire Konkan area including Mumbai received very strong Thundershowers on Tuesday. Heavy to very heavy spells of rains were also recorded from all over Mumbai and nearby areas till late Tuesday evening and was expected to continue till late night. Meanwhile according to Kapadia the monsoon withdrawal from Maharashtra is yet to begin. "This is the year of the most delayed monsoon withdrawal from northwest India as before this it was on October 1, 1961 that the withdrawal started from Rajasthan..