Panaji: The sun feels soft on the skin and bite in the air seen even during the day, as the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD), Panaji, records a maximum temperature of only 29 degrees Celsius – 3.3 degrees below normal – on Tuesday.
In comparison, the minimum temperature recorded in the city is 18.8 degrees Celsius, only 1.6 degrees below normal, but the morning hours are cooler than usual.
For the city, it is the second lowest minimum temperature during this season so far.
Mercury was dipped in the lowest this season – 18.4 degrees C in Panaji and 18.2 degrees C in Mormugao on December 19.
“This is caused by the North component in the lower level wind, which has brought a minimum temperature over the past few years,” Rahul M, scientist, IMD, Panaji.
While mercury has dipped under 20 degrees over the past few days, the curfew has been pleasant for about ten days.
Today’s temperature is also fun, drifting around 30 degrees Celsius.
Long relaxed winter was lost during last season, and Mercury hardly dropped below 20 degrees on one or two occasions.
The minimum temperature is likely to drop around one degree in both districts for the next 24 hours, according to the IMD bulletin.
Further changes in minimum temperatures are not possible for three to four days ahead, while the weather tends to dry for the next five days.
Fog fog or fog tends to be in isolated places until January 15.
But IMD, Panaji, expects a mercury increase after Saturday, because the direction of the wind tends to change.
In the interior, far from the beach, mercury curled lower.