Cold winds over city; snuggle for 3 more days

Cold winds over city; snuggle for 3 more days
Tuesday January 8 2008 07:03 IST

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BANGALORE: Bangalore’s weather has been marked by clear blue skies and a definite nip in its air over the last three days.

The Met office says it is the clearing of overcast conditions that has contributed to this chill and that this phenomenon is likely to continue for another two to three days.

According to Meteorologists, with cloud cover clearing in the last three days, moisture-free air has swept across the southern region resulting in a drop in incoming radiation and rise in outgoing radiation.

This has led to a decrease in temperature in the atmosphere. City Meteorological Department director Dr A Muthachami told this website's newspaper, “The City on Friday and Saturday experienced slight drizzle.

Due to this, there was a drop in temperature. However, this was not significant since this is common in December,’’ he said.

Professor of Agro-Meteorology, University of Agricultural Sciences, MB Rajegowda said the main reason for falling temperature was the moisture free breeze entering from Bay of Bengal and heading towards the Western parts.

Adding to the cold was the slight breeze of moderate wind speed of 10-15 km/hr, causing the wind-chill. The cold wave in Northern India due to Western disturbances is another cause of cold wave.

Rajegowda said cold wind is blowing from North Western to Western India. This Western disturbance at high altitude is moving towards Southern India from the North, bringing in the cold wave.

On Saturday, the maximum temperature was 26.6 degree Celsius and minimum was 19.1 degree Celsius, whereas on Sunday, the maximum temperature was 26.9 degree Celsius and minimum dipped to 15 degree Celsius.

On Monday, the maximum temperature was 27.2 degree Celsius and minimum was 14.7 degree Celsius. And since January 3, the length of the day has been gradually increasing. ‘‘A sign of the season approaching summer,’’ Rajegowda said.