India, June 23 -- Pre-monsoon showers lashed Maharashtra's Mumbai on Monday and were likely to continue Tuesday as well in the run up to the eagerly awaited official arrival of southwest monsoon to the city.

A nascent revival of the southwest monsoon over Maharashtra will likely take it over Mumbai in the next 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said, while clarifying that the rain received by India's commercial capital on Monday were, in fact, pre-monsoon showers, HT reported earlier.

Mumbai and several other nearby districts of Maharashtra were under an IMD orange alerts on Tuesday for heavy rain as southwest monsoon approached.

-Mumbai was under an orange alert on Tuesday, according to the nowcast viewed on IMD websi...