By IANS
Mumbai : People in the two top international tourist destinations of Maharashtra – Mumbai and Aurangabad – battled chill Wednesday morning as the minimum temperatures in the two cities slumped to 10 degrees Celsius.
This is the lowest to which mercury has dipped in these two cities in the past four decades, according to weather officials.
Earlier Feb 5 and Jan 27, Mumbai recorded the low of 10.2 degrees Celsius, and Wednesday it clipped the record by 0.2 degree Celsius to register only 10 degrees Celsius.
According to Mumbai weather bureau, the growing chill and the consequent cold wave are attributed to the strong northerly winds lashing across parts of the state.
“The temperature in Mumbai and the state is expected to remain below normal for another week,” weather bureau director K. Sathidevi told IANS.
The normal temperatures recorded in Mumbai during February every year are around 17 degrees Celsius, she added.
Nashik and Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra’s grape and strawberry capitals respectively, also recorded the lowest temperatures.
While the mercury plummeted to 5.8 in Nashik, the state’s highest hill resort Mahabaleshwar stood at 8.1 degrees Celsius.
Pune recorded the minimum of 10.6 degrees Celsius, and Kolhapur 11.1.
The other important cities like Nagpur in east Maharashtra and Solapur in the south were warmer at 16 degrees Celsius.