Bengal’s Purulia at 12°C, cooler than hill stations in north as unexpected cold wave sweeps south districts

While respective districts successful bluish portion of the state, similar Jalpaiguri recorded a minimum of 16.9°C, followed by Alipurduar 17.0°C, Cooch Behar 15.7°C, Raiganj 17.5°C, and Malda 20.2°C, the minimum somesthesia dropped to 13 degrees Celsius successful Sriniketan and 14 degrees Celsius successful Jhargram.

Kolkata recorded a minimum somesthesia of 18 degrees Celsius, astir 2 notches beneath normal, portion the maximum somesthesia connected Monday stood astatine 27.5 degrees Celsius, 2.7 notches supra average, it said.

Day and nighttime temperatures successful the authorities are apt to stay much oregon little the aforesaid implicit the adjacent fewer days owing to the prevailing adust weather, it added.

The Met Department (IMD), meanwhile, has predicted a gradual alteration successful somesthesia crossed the Gangetic West Bengal successful the coming days. The occidental districts are peculiarly susceptible to this acold wave.

“Dense fog has enveloped respective southbound and northbound Bengal districts, importantly reducing visibility. The bluish districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Malda North, and Dinajpur South are experiencing the astir terrible fog conditions, with visibility dropping to arsenic debased arsenic 50-200 metres, the Met Department warned .

Meanwhile, a cyclone is besides presently implicit southbound Bangladesh, which whitethorn indirectly power the upwind patterns successful West Bengal, officials said. However, determination is nary contiguous menace of rainfall oregon thunderstorms successful the state, according to the IMD.