Mangaluru City records 38.6 deg C, all-time high for Feb
08:44PM Fri 19 Feb, 2016
MANGALURU: The city sizzled on Friday with the mercury shooting up to 38.6 degree Celsius - an all-time high for February. On Thursday, the temperature had was 38.4 deg C.
Friday's temperature is 6 degree C above the normal mean max of 31.9 deg C for February. The earlier high for the decade for February was 38.2 deg C on February 28, 2012. The city experienced extreme temperatures of 37.2 deg C in February twice -- on February 10, 2005 and February 25, 2006. "Friday's temperature is an all-time record for February,'' said Geeta Agnihotri, director in-charge, Meteorological Regional Observatory, Bengaluru.
The Panambur Weather Observatory recorded temperatures exceeding 36 deg C again on three occasions - 36.9 Deg C, 36.6 Deg C and 36.4 Deg C on February 1, 23 and 29 in 2011, 2007 and 2008 respectively.
Geeta said the coast will get some relief only after a fortnight. "Showers are expected in March, probably after March 8," she said. Regarding the reasons for such high temperatures, Geeta said the met department would have to analyse the previous year's data to get answers to this phenomenon.
Minimum temperatures too have been high -- with the city recording 24.6 deg C on Friday, 3 deg C above the normal mean min of 21.9 deg C for February.
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