At 15°C, city records season’s lowest temp

New Year’s day saw cool and pleasant conditions in the city on Wednesday morning as the minimum temperature dropped to the lowest for the season. Santacruz weather

New Year’s day saw cool and pleasant conditions in the city on Wednesday morning as the minimum temperature dropped to the lowest for the season. Santacruz weather observatory, representative of the suburbs and Mumbai, recorded a minimum temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, two degrees Celsius below normal. Colaba weather station, representative of south Mumbai, recorded 17 degrees Celsius (the lowest this season for this weather station), which was almost three degrees Celsius below normal.

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In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Panvel was the coldest at 11 degrees Celsius, followed by Borivli and Kandivli in the Mumbai suburbs, both at 13 degrees Celsius. Bhandup and Mulund in the eastern suburbs recorded 14.4 degrees Celsius while remaining areas witnessed temperatures ranging between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius. Worli was the warmest across MMR at 20.1 degrees Celsius. Earlier, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had said that December 2019 was the first time since 2009 when the minimum temperature in Mumbai had not dropped below 16 degrees Celsius. Tuesday’s minimum temperature was 16.4 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature on Tuesday fell below the 30 degree Celsius mark for the first time this season (28.8 degrees Celsius).

“Both maximum and minimum temperatures have fallen in the last two days owing cool winds from the northern parts of the country, and marginal decline in humidity,” said KS Hosalikar, deputy director general, western region, IMD. He said the minimum temperature was likely to remain in the range of 15-16 degrees Celsius in coming days. The lowest minimum temperature in January over the past 10 years was recorded on January 29, 2012, (10 degrees Celsius), and the all-time low for the month was recorded on January 22, 1962 when the mercury dropped to 7.4 degrees Celsius. Last year’s lowest minimum temperature (13.4 degrees Celsius) was recorded on January 19, 2019. Meanwhile, the maximum temperature was 28.9 degrees Celsius in the suburbs, 2.1 degree Celsius below normal while 28.8 degrees Celsius was recorded in south Mumbai.