Kolkata weather
Last year, Kolkata logged around 251 mm of rainfall in 6 hours on Sept 23. On Wednesday, the gloomy sky and the rainfall forced the mercury to slip further to 29.6°C, which is 2.9 notches below normal. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Kolkata | Silver Rate in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata | Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Petrol Price in Kolkata | Diesel Price in Kolkata | CNG Price in Kolkata | LPG Price in Kolkata Earlier reporting noted: Deep depression heads to coast, Kol may get rain for next 3 days Kolkata weather Earlier reporting noted: Kolkata : The city might not be in the path of the weather system that is building up over the Bay of Bengal but peripheral clouds from the depression have already started bringing rain to Kolkata and other parts of the state.
In Met parlance, a 24-hour rain count ranging between 70 mm and 110 mm of rainfall is considered “heavy”. Hence, we expect only heavy rain in city,” said the RMC Kolkata head. Earlier reporting noted: “We are issuing moderate rain for Kolkata as of now while the maximum impact is likely to be coastal districts of Midnapore, Jhargram and South 24 Parganas and western districts where heavy to very heavy rain is expected,” said HR Biswas, head at Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata.
“After the system enters the land, it will keep moving northwards. Once it gets inside Odisha, the system’s proximity to our region becomes closer, affecting the wind pattern in different layers and injecting higher volume of moisture. This in turn will bring enhanced rainfall in most parts of Bengal. Till Tuesday, the Met office predicted the deep depression to impact Kolkata with moderate rain. The heavy rain played spoilsport during the Durga Puja celebrations as it left most parts of the city knee-deep in water. Even as the system was only a low-pressure area, the core of the system affected our region directly, triggering that kind of rain. This time, we will be impacted by the outer periphery of the system. Kolkata is likely to get spells of moderate rain for the next three days While the Met office has allayed fears of the system intensifying into a cyclonic storm.
“The deluge last year was caused by a low-pressure area. The system crossed north Andhra Pradesh-south Odisha coasts between Vishakhapatnam and Gopalpur, close to Kalingapatnam as a deep depression late on Wednesday night. Met officials said the impact in Kolkata and other parts of Bengal will be maximum on Thursday. For Kolkata, we are expecting heavy rain on Thursday,” said HR Biswas, head at the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Kolkata. But on Wednesday, it updated its rain alert to heavy rain.