City sizzles as Met dept extends heatwave alert
After sizzling at the highest day temperatures today, citizens of south Bengal, including Kolkata could face harsher days with the probability of temperature going up in the next few days.
It was a pleasant and cloudy Sunday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded 24.8 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average.
“The sky will remain overcast throughout the day with the possibility of light rain,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said.
The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 33 degrees Celsius.
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Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 84 per cent and the city received 14.8 mm rain in the past 24 hours.
Saturday’s maximum temperature was 32.8 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average, and the minimum temperature was 26.5 degrees Celsius.
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