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A rainy evening likely for Kolkata today, more showers in offing

April 28, 2017 11:53 AM |

Rain, hailstorm likely over Kolkata

At present, Kolkata is witnessing a cloudy weather and soon rains are expected to follow. Though, the pleasant weather did prevail in the city yesterday but the city missed the rainy spells.

In fact, Kolkata  has been escaping the pre-Monsoon rains for almost a month now. Rains remained absent from pouring over the state capital since April began. However, a few showers were observed by the city of joy a couple of days back. The last rains the city observed was on April 23. Since then, rains took a back seat.

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Due to this, temperatures also scaled up settling in mid-30 and even went up to a high of 37°C which was on April 12. In fact on Thursday too, the daytime high recorded in Kolkata was 36.2°C. The minimum too settled at 28.1°C. However, now the hot and humid weather in Kolkata is expected to take a backseat as rains are expected over the city.

Lightning image for Kolkata, West BengalThough a few districts of West Bengal barring Kolkata did witness rains in the last 24 hours. Midnapore recorded 6 mm of rains, while Shanti Niketan witnessed 2 mm of rainy spells in a span of 24 hours from 08:30 am on Thursday.

As per Skymet Weather, the reason for these rains over these districts is a trough that persists from North Bihar to coastal Odisha across Jharkhand and interior parts of West Bengal.

Furthermore, these rains are expected to show up in Kolkata during late afternoon or evening hours which is the characteristic of pre-Monsoon showers.

Even counting on these rains, not much change is expected in the average monthly rains profile. The average monthly rainfall for Kolkata stands at 58.9 mm and until now, the city of joy has already recorded 4.9 mm of rains only. This is a huge difference in terms of rains which is unfortunately not possible for the city of joy to surpass.

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