At 16.4°C, Kol sees third coldest Nov day in 10 yrs
Times of India | 26 November 2025
Kolkata: The minimum temperature dipped to the season's lowest in Kolkata on Tuesday. At 16.4 degrees, this was also the third coldest Nov day for the city in 10 years. The maximum temperature too plunged to the season's lowest of 26.3 degrees, which was close to three notches below the normal mark. The Met office expects no significant change in these two temperature parameters, with the two hovering around the same mark on Wednesday too, with the possibility of a slight rise from Thursday onwards. But overall, the weather will remain pleasant as the rise is likely to be only marginal.
Prior to Tuesday, the lowest minimum temperature this Nov was 17.1 degrees Celsius in Kolkata, recorded on two consecutive days of Nov 12 and 14. With a gradual rise in the following days, it inched closer to 20 degrees on Nov 21 before it started dipping slowly.
"The minimum temperature might dip further but only faintly on Wednesday, with a possibility of a rising trend after two days," said H R Biswas, head of Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata.
In the past 10 years, the Nov minimum temperature plunged lower than that on Tuesday only twice — 15.4 degrees in 2020 and 14.6 degrees in 2017. Even as Kolkata starts yearning for the biting chill, the Met office has ruled out any drastic dip for now.
Going to play spoilsport by preventing the mercury from plunging further for now is a twin weather system — a depression over the Strait of Malacca and a depression area formed on Tuesday over the Comorin and adjoining areas of southwest Bay of Bengal and Sri Lanka. While none of these will have direct impact on Bengal, the two can influence the wind pattern.
"There is no weather warning in Bengal as a consequence of any of these systems for now. But these systems can influence the wind pattern over a large area. We are currently getting the chill-bearing northwesterly wind. But by Thursday, this wind system will reduce, paving the way for a northerly or easterly wind system," added Biswas. The speed and intensity of the dry and chill northwesterly wind system play a major role in pushing the mercury down during winters.