Summary:
The forecast by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has revealed that at 14.8 degrees Celsius, Mumbai recorded its lowest temperature of the season on Friday morning.
Cold north-western winds brought a chill to the city.
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The forecast by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has revealed that at 14.8 degrees Celsius, Mumbai recorded its lowest temperature of the season on Friday morning.
Cold north-western winds brought a chill to the city.
IMD’s Santacruz station, which is indicative of temperatures in Mumbai and the suburbs, recorded a minimum temperature of 14.8 degree Celsius, down from 15.2 degree Celsius on Thursday and 2.7 degrees below normal.
The Colaba station, which is indicative of south Mumbai, recorded the minimum temperature at 17.5 degree Celsius, which is 0.2 degree Celsius below normal and 0.1 degree Celsius below Thursday’s minimum temperature.
“Mumbai Santacruz recorded lowest min temperature of this season today (Friday) morning from Dec 2020.
[There was] Good chill in air and a pleasant morning again, with the first time in this season, the Santacruz Met Observatory recorded below 15°C.
No large change expected in the next 24 hrs.
Thereafter gradual rise [of temperature is expected] (sic),” said KS Hosalikar, deputy director-general (western region), IMD, on Twitter.
Prior to this, the city had recorded the season’s lowest minimum temperature at 15 degrees Celsius on December 29 last year.