Kolkata: Inside the dark on Wednesday afternoon as a mass of a 10-12 km cloud that swallowed the city, forcing the vehicle to turn on the lights.
Even street lights must be activated in many places at 14:40.
The cloud mass floated into the city of Bangladesh, which caused a sudden and premature darkness darkness.
Weatherman explained that the cloud was so thick that it managed to cut even vague sunlight, which led to almost complete darkness.
Heavy rain and lightning that often follows clouds.
Kolkata received 97.1mm rain between 8:30 a.m.
and 17:30 on Wednesday.
This cloud mass of density and height has not passed the city for a long time, said the weather.
It has been triggered by the rainstal season which is now passing through Uttar Pradesh and North Bay of Bengal, cutting in Bengal and Bangladesh.
“The mass of the giant cloud has floated from Bangladesh and traveled throughout North and South Pargana to Kolkata.
While the South Kolkata section was affected, North, East and the Kolkata Center bears the burden of storm and rain triggered,” said Director of the Regional Meteorology Center (RMC) GK Das.
Bad weather imposes the transfer of four flights that come to the land in Kolkata.
Indigo flights from Bengaluru, Chennai, Patna and Dibrugarh were all diverted to Bhubaneswar.
In some places in Central and North Kolkata, rain is so heavy and visibility so that traffic is crawling.
“Even though it uses a wiper, visibility is almost zero.
I decided to park my car and wait almost 40 minutes to rain to stop,” said Jaydip Ray, who has driven his workplace in Kolkata Center for an hour between 14:30 and 3, 30pm, heavy rains reduce visibility and make dangerous conditions to maintain operations.
Initially, it was a North Kolkata which seemed to bring Brunt with regions such as Ultadang, Maniktala, Belgaachhia and Buyaghata which recorded 50mm rainfall between 14:00 and 3pm which led to airlogging.
Then in the afternoon, Ballygunge, Jodhpur Park, Mominpur, Kalight and Behala also received heavy shower.