Kolkata sizzles at record-breaking 43°C, ‘highest in 70 years’
The city on Tuesday touched the highest temperature of the day at 43 degree Celsius which was a record in the past 70 years.
For the last time the city had registered the highest temperature at 43 in 1954. In April of 1954 the city recorded the highest temperature at 43.3 degree Celsius.
The city’s highest temperature on Tuesday remained 7.4 degrees above normal. Kalaikunda in West Midnapore registered the highest temperature of the day at 47.2 degree Celsius.
The UN report on climate change, projects that the highest temperature in Kolkata may touch 49.6 degrees Celsius between 2081 and 2100 under the worst possible global carbon emission rise scenario.
The Regional Meteorological Centre in Alipore said that there may be scattered rainfall in several south Bengal districts on Sunday. The intensity of rainfall
The city’s highest temperature on Tuesday remained 7.4 degrees above normal. Kalaikunda in West Midnapore registered the highest temperature of the day at 47.2 degree Celsius
may increase on Monday and Tuesday next week. A Thunderstorm may hit North 24-Parganas, South 24-Parganas, East Midnapore.