Rain drags temperature down by 3°C in Kolkata, Met predicts more showers
KOLKATA: A spell of light rain - around 6.6 mm - on Friday evening pulled the mercury down by around three notches. The Met office predicted more such showers in the run-up to the expected pre-monsoon by the middle of the coming week.
The temperature is likely to see a significant dip once the showers are brought in by a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal.
A partly cloudy sky during the day on Friday, with traces of rain, kept the maximum temperature three notches below normal, though it rose to 32.4°C from Thursday's 31.1°C. However, the minimum temperature, which nosedived to 22.4°C on Thursday due to overnight rain, shot up to 28°C. Met officials said this was due to the absence of rain on Thursday.
"Kolkata will continue to get spells of light and scattered thundershowers until we get more uniform and widespread rain once the low-pressure area develops. The mercury will not rise abruptly," said Met scientist H R Biswas, head of the weather forecast section at Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata.
The low-pressure area is likely to form over the Bay of Bengal by Tuesday and intensify by the next day, triggering the first of the pre-monsoon showers this season.
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In addition to Kolkata, this system may cause widespread rain in most districts, with some heavy spells in North and South 24 Parganas, and East and West Midnapore.
"Conditions are ripe for formation of a low-pressure area. Thereafter, the cloudiness and the rain will drag the mercury down significantly," Biswas said.
The IMD has also predicted the southwest monsoon's onset over Kerala by Saturday or Sunday, extending its branch to some parts of northeast India. The Alipore Met office said its arrival over Kolkata and other South Bengal districts can be inferred after the Kerala onset.
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