Published 10:31 IST, June 3rd 2020

Track Cyclone Nisarga in your Mumbai area on Skymet's rain-tracker app 'Mumbai Rain: Live'

Cyclone Nisarga is expected to make landfall in Alibag on Wednesday and is nearing the Maharashtra coast. Skymet's Mumbai rains live tracker will help citizens

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Tropical storm 'Cyclone Nisarga', which intensified into a "severe cyclonic storm" on Wednesday morning, is headed towards Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts and is expected to make landfall in Alibag which is about 94 km from Mumbai. Section 144 of CrPC has been issued in city in view of cyclone and citizens are advised to stay at home because of heavy rainfall.

Ahead of incoming Monsoon and right in time for Cyclone Nisarga, wear forecaster Skymet has recently launched a first-of-its-kind wear App dedicated only to Mumbai, called 'Mumbai Rain: Live Wear App For Mumbaikars'. This app will help Mumbaikars with real-time temperatures, rainfall figures, relative humidity, and wind speed for current and nearby locations to users. Mumbai Rain app showcases wear data (maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall figures, relative humidity, and wind speed) for all major localities of Mumbai city.

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Here is link to download Mumbai Rain: Live Wear App For Mumbaikars app

App provides detailed information on extent of rainfall received in each locality of Mumbai: 

Red alert issued for coastal districts in Maharashtra & Gujarat

Amit IMD red alert for Maharashtra and Gujarat, Skymet Wear Founder and MD Jatin Singh told Republic TV that landfall is likely past 1 pm, with windspeeds reaching 100 kmph. He provided an analysis of upcoming rainfall, raising how Mumbaikars are probably t used to compressed rain such as kind cyclones bring in tandem with cyclonic winds:

IMD has issued a red alert for at least seven coastal districts of Maharashtra, while several districts along Gujarat’s coast are also expecting heavy rainfall.

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It is a "negotiable" cyclone

On Tuesday, IMD Chief  M Mohapatra speaking to Republic TV said, "Nisarga's impact will be maximum over Mumbai, Thane and Raigad districts and might impact adjoining districts like Palghar, Ratnagiri and a few districts of Gujarat. On its influence also, we are expecting heavy to extremely heavy rainfall. So today we can have heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places in Konkan and tomorrow some places can have extremely heavy rainfall exceeding 20 cms in 24 hours. In addition, we are expecting tidal waves of about one to two metres high above astromical tides."

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National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Director General SN Pradhan joining broadcast along with IMD Chief said that in disaster manment terms, it is a "negotiable" cyclone and expected it to cause zero casualties in terms of life. He said that force is ready because of prior information provided by IMD four days back and informed that multiple high-level meetings have also taken place to keep a track of cyclone.

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10:31 IST, June 3rd 2020