India, Aug. 6 -- Mumbai woke up to a fairly sunny August day on Tuesday, not a monsoon cloud in sight. But quirky weather doesn't surprise Mumbaiites any longer. Who would have thought May would steal the monsoon's thunder?
Experts say the pivotal factor that shapes the Mumbai monsoon, notorious for bringing the city to its knees at least once during its four-month run, are low pressure systems over the Bay of Bengal, which push westerly winds from east to west, and bring moisture, and thus rain, to Mumbai.
The unusual activity, or lack of it, was a curtain-raiser for the strange twists May had in store. What is usually one of two hottest months of the year turned out to be the wettest in over a century - Colaba recorded 503.2 mm of rai...
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