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Saturday, December 29, 2012

At 13.7°C, Saturday was city’s coldest this season

Mumbai: Mumbaikars woke up to a chillier morning on Saturday, even as night-time temperatures dipped to as low as 13.7 degrees Celsius, though not low enough to make it to the lowest five December temperatures of the decade. Saturday's minimum temperature is this season's lowest, so far. 

    While Colaba recorded a minimum temperature of 18.6 degrees Celsius, Santa Cruz's 13.7 was nearly four degrees below normal. 
    V K Rajeev, director of weather forecast at Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Mumbai, said that the dip was because of two systems in the north. "A western disturbance is approaching Jammu and Kashmir. However, another induced disturb
ance has culminated over Rajasthan. Together, these are causing a chill in the respective regions, which is being carried forward to the city by winds that are northerly to north-easterly," he said. 
    A western disturbance is an extra-tropical storm or a low pressure system which originates in the Mediterranean Sea and moves eastwards, causing rainfall in Iran, Pakistan and India and snowfall in some parts of India. Many parts of Maharashtra also saw below-normal temperatures. Ahmednagar recorded a minimum of 6 degrees Celsius, while the temperature in Pune was 10 degrees Celsius. 
    In Mumbai, not only night-time temperatures, but also maximum temperatures dipped. On Saturday, Colaba recorded a day-time temperature of 29 degrees Celsiuswhile Santa Cruz recorded 30.2 degrees Celsius. Humidity levels have also had a role to play in this, said the meteoroligical department.


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