THANE: With the mercury levels rising above that of Mumbai, ecological professionals from Thane blame it on rampant urbanization and reducing green quilt coupled with its distance from the beach.
Over the past few days, the heat wave that hit the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) brought about a upward push in the maximum and minimum temperatures by way of over six levels Celsius.
However, throughout this era the temperature recorded in Thane city has been consistently higher than that of Mumbai, thus leaving citizens baffled.
“One of the reasons we purchased our home in Thane 5 years in the past used to be because it used to be greener than Mumbai, and we felt that this may make sure that a extra pleasant weather. The rising temperatures and reducing air quality, particularly over the past few days has utterly rubbished that notion,” said Souradeep Ghosh, a Lodha resident.
Meteorologists asserted that this difference between the mercury levels of Mumbai and Thane might be as a result of the cooling down of the recent winds because it is going additional south.
“The warmth wave over the past three days used to be a result of the intensification of the northern sizzling winds as a result of the anti-cyclonic situation over south Pakistan. As these sizzling and sultry winds move south, the temperature marginally drops. While other regions typically have other weather in line with their topography, the reason for expanding variation between these neighbouring towns is most definitely as a result of these winds cooled down by way of a point or two because it passed from Thane to Mumbai,” said Mahesh Palwat, senior meteorologist at skymetweather.
Acknowledging that this might be one of the crucial reasons for the disparity between the weather of the sister towns, city environmentalists and urban planners indicate that the rampant deforestation and urbanization has additional widened this gap.
City-based environmentalist V Walavalkar, said, “Thane is not a green city. The bushes and mangroves had been chopped down in the name of construction and urbanization. Concrete roads and development complexes had been mushrooming in what once used to be a green house. The major explanation why for the rising temperature is the slow dying of the fairway cover that once helped keep an eye on warmth and pollution.”
“The temperature might drop marginally as the winds move south, but now not by way of three to 4 levels Celsius. Even if we imagine the upper humidity levels in the coastal island city it could now not make this giant a difference. So either there is some variation in the manner of recording the temperature by way of the TMC and the IMD or the herbal cooling gadget in the city has been messed with,” added a member of environmental organisation Paryavaran Dakshata Mandal.
Over the past few days, the heat wave that hit the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) brought about a upward push in the maximum and minimum temperatures by way of over six levels Celsius.
However, throughout this era the temperature recorded in Thane city has been consistently higher than that of Mumbai, thus leaving citizens baffled.
“One of the reasons we purchased our home in Thane 5 years in the past used to be because it used to be greener than Mumbai, and we felt that this may make sure that a extra pleasant weather. The rising temperatures and reducing air quality, particularly over the past few days has utterly rubbished that notion,” said Souradeep Ghosh, a Lodha resident.
Meteorologists asserted that this difference between the mercury levels of Mumbai and Thane might be as a result of the cooling down of the recent winds because it is going additional south.
“The warmth wave over the past three days used to be a result of the intensification of the northern sizzling winds as a result of the anti-cyclonic situation over south Pakistan. As these sizzling and sultry winds move south, the temperature marginally drops. While other regions typically have other weather in line with their topography, the reason for expanding variation between these neighbouring towns is most definitely as a result of these winds cooled down by way of a point or two because it passed from Thane to Mumbai,” said Mahesh Palwat, senior meteorologist at skymetweather.
Acknowledging that this might be one of the crucial reasons for the disparity between the weather of the sister towns, city environmentalists and urban planners indicate that the rampant deforestation and urbanization has additional widened this gap.
City-based environmentalist V Walavalkar, said, “Thane is not a green city. The bushes and mangroves had been chopped down in the name of construction and urbanization. Concrete roads and development complexes had been mushrooming in what once used to be a green house. The major explanation why for the rising temperature is the slow dying of the fairway cover that once helped keep an eye on warmth and pollution.”
“The temperature might drop marginally as the winds move south, but now not by way of three to 4 levels Celsius. Even if we imagine the upper humidity levels in the coastal island city it could now not make this giant a difference. So either there is some variation in the manner of recording the temperature by way of the TMC and the IMD or the herbal cooling gadget in the city has been messed with,” added a member of environmental organisation Paryavaran Dakshata Mandal.
In Thane, rampant urbanization and decreasing green cover add to more heat than Mumbai
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