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Even as October winds down, Mumbai has continued to wake up to overcast skies and intermittent showers surprising many who assumed the monsoon was over. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) formally declared the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon from Mumbai on Oct. 10, 2025. So why is there a wet spell now?

Speaking to Mid-Day , IMD scientist B Nitha Sashidharan explained what’s really driving the late-season showers. According to Sashidharan, the current rains are not a spillover from the retreating monsoon. Instead, they are linked to a depression over the East-Central Arabian Sea, which has channeled the moisture into the Mumbai regio

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