Light rainfall is expected successful East and West Midnapore portion the North and South 24 Parganas districts volition person rainfall connected the weekend. (Express Photo)
The brewing cyclone successful the Bay of Bengal has indirectly impacted the onset of wintertime successful West Bengal. While the authorities is improbable to acquisition nonstop effects, the IMD has forecast airy to mean rainfall implicit the play successful 4 coastal districts: East and West Midnapore, and North and South 24 Parganas.
Light rainfall is expected successful East and West Midnapore portion the North and South 24 Parganas districts volition person rainfall connected the weekend.
The coastal districts of West Bengal whitethorn acquisition a flimsy emergence successful somesthesia owed to the power of the cyclone. However, the occidental districts are expected to support their wintery climate. Fog is apt successful respective districts, including Darjeeling, North Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri, and Malda.
Kolkata’s minimum somesthesia was recorded astatine 17 degrees Celsius connected Wednesday. The metropolis is expected to spot a gradual summation successful somesthesia implicit the adjacent fewer days, with nighttime temperatures perchance reaching 20 degrees Celsius by the extremity of November.
“Chances of a further driblet successful somesthesia are debased for now,” said a upwind official.
“The slump implicit the Bay of Bengal has go precise heavy implicit the southwest Bay of Bengal. The region of the cyclonic enactment from the onshore of Bengal is agelong truthful it tin beryllium said that determination is nary effect,” said different official.
Likely to intensify into a cyclone, the heavy slump is presently located 640 km southbound and southeast of Pondicherry and 720 km southbound and southeast of the Chennai coast. For now, avoiding the Sri Lankan coast, it is heading towards the Tamil Nadu coast.