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11.4 degrees: Mumbai feels the chill
While the minimum was 14 degree Celsius at Mahableshwar, it was 11.6°C at the Mumbai’s suburban weather station, which was also the second lowest minimum recorded in December in over a decade.
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“The city will continue to get cool breezes for another one or two days, due to stronger daytime winds”, said an IMD official.
Meanwhile, IMD Colaba recorded a temperature of 17.8°C on Tuesday, the second lowest minimum temperature recorded in the city for the month of December since 2004. The all-time December minimum, of 10.6°C, was recorded in 1949. The maximum temperatures also remained relatively low at 28.3 degrees in Santacruz and 27.3 degrees in Colaba.
Temperatures dipped to 11.6 degrees in Santacruz and Mumbaikars shivered as the mercury recorded 6 degrees below the average temperature in the city, which is 17 degrees in December. The minimum temperature hovered around 20 degrees Celsius in Kolhapur, Satara, Solapur, Chandrapur, Wardha and Osmanabad districts.
Residents of Mumbai have welcomed the drop in temperature as it gives the them a chance to bring out their woollens even if for a brief stretch.
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Attributing the present chill to the cold northerly winds, the official said, these winds are reaching upto the north coastal Maharashtra from across Rajasthan and Gujarat and thus leading to drop in the minimum temperatures in all these areas. “A lot of patients with influenza-like symptoms are coming to me”.