Kol remains hot, humid with max at 37°C & real-feel 46°C
Times of India | 3 June 2025
12 Kolkata: The city remained warm and humid even as the maximum temperature climbed to 37°C on a scorching Monday. With warm westerly winds flowing into the region, the mercury will continue to hover around the 36-37°C mark for the next three days, predicted the Met office.The real feel temperature, a measure of how the heat feels on the skin, which is measured based on parameters like temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, and sun rays intensity, among others, climbed up to 46°C. "There will be no respite from the heat and humidity till the weekend. Sporadic thunderstorms are likely, but they will not pull the mercury down significantly. The maximum temperature may touch 38°C during this spell," said RMC weather scientist H R Biswas. Apart from Kolkata, Jhargram, Howrah, Hooghly, East and West Midnapore, North and South 24 Parganas will remain warm and humid. An RMC bulletin said: "An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over east Bihar and neighbourhood at 1.5 km above mean sea level. A trough runs from east Uttar Pradesh to north-east Assam across central parts of Bihar, north Bengal, Sikkim, and Assam at 0.9 km above mean sea level. Under the influence of the above meteorological conditions, thunderstorms with lightning and heavy rainfall activities are likely over the districts of north Bengal, though intensity of rainfall may reduce. Also, due to dry westerly wind in the lower levels, hot and humid conditions are likely in some districts of south Bengal."