At 14.8°Celsius, Mumbai records this season’s lowest temperature
MUMBAI: At 14.8 degrees Celsius, Mumbai recorded its lowest temperature of the season on Friday morning. Cold northwestern winds brought chill to the city, forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has revealed.
IMD’S Santacruz station, which represents 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 temperature in 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 first time in this season, the Santacruz Met Observatory recorded below 15°C. No large change expected in next 24 hrs. Thereafter gradual rise [of temperature is expected] (sic),” read a post by KS Hosalikar, deputy director general (western region), IMD.
Prior to this, the city had recorded the season’s lowest minimum temperature at 15 degrees Celsius on December 29 last year. Last season, the city’s lowest minimum temperature was 11.4 degrees Celsius, recorded on January 14, 2020. The maximum temperatures increased slightly, but remained below normal. At Santacruz, the maximum temperature was 30.5 degrees Celsius, which was 1.1 degrees Celsius below normal. Colaba recorded a maximum temperature of 29.5 degrees Celsius – 0.8 degrees below normal.
Meanwhile, the air quality also improved marginally on Thursday, though it remained in the ‘poor’ category. An overall air quality index (AQI) — the air quality indicator— of 290 was measured in the city, as compared to Thursday 293 (poor). Malad had the worst it quality with an AQI of 334. “Due to calm wind conditions prevailing in Mumbai and the surrounding regions, continental air coming into the region is not getting dispersed. This is leading to poor AQI in Mumbai. With current calm weather conditions, local emission with continental pollution is likely to keep AQI in poorvery poor categories for Mumbai in the next two days,” said a spokesperson from SAFAR.