Wednesday morning was coldest in Oct since 2010

MUMBAI: Cool winds from the northern parts of the country helped the city record its coldest October morning in the past seven years on Wednesday.

While the Santacruz weather station, representative of Mumbai, recorded 18.8 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature, which was 4.3 degree Celsius below normal, Colaba recorded 22.4 degrees Celsius, representative of south Mumbai, which was 2 degrees Celsius below normal. These were overnight readings taken at 5.30am on Wednesday.

The lowest night temperature for Mumbai in the past decade was recorded on October 19, 2007 (18.7 degrees Celsius) and the alltime-low night temperature was recorded on October 30, 1952 (16.7 degrees Celsius).