Max temperature in Kolkata may touch 37°C this week: Met
Times of India | 21 April 2025
Kolkata: Brace for another phase of hot and humid days. After an intense shower on Thursday and a few scattered spells at isolated pockets on Friday, the maximum temperature in the city could shoot up to 37°C in the next three to four days, the Met predicted.
The mercury is already on the rise. On Sunday, the maximum temperature touched the 35-degree mark after a gap of six days.
It nosedived to 31.2 °C on Friday after the Thursday thundershowers, making it the lowest this April. It rose to 33.4°C on Saturday before shooting up further.
"Kolkata is expected to enter a dry spell for the next five to six days at least," said Sourish Bandyopadhyay, a weather scientist at the Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata.
The minimum temperature also plunged to the month's lowest of 20.9°C on Friday. But in the absence of rain, it rose to 25.2°C the next day before reaching 27.8°C on Sunday, which was 1.7 notches above the normal mark.
According to the Met officials in the city, there is no significant system at present that would trigger rainfall in the city.