The winter season has come to an end for the entire country and this year the ‘City of dreams- Mumbai’ experienced short, sweet and mild winters.
Even during peak winters, Mumbaikars continued to experience warm days with temperatures sticking close to 30℃.
Generally, the city starts experiencing warm conditons from the last week of February, wherein temperatures continuously soar and increased humidity levels cause discomfort to residents. As we head towards the month of March, temperatures gradually rise and cross the 40 degree mark on occasions.
Moreover, Mumbai is the least weather affected pocket in terms of rain during March. Despite being a coastal station and continuously going through high humidity levels, the unfavourable weather conditions keeps the city dry.
According to the data available with Skymet, in the last 10 years, there have been 4 occasions in March, when the city crossed the 40 degree mark, with highest being 41.3℃ in the year 2011.
First 10 days of March in Mumbai
This year, March has begun on a relatively comfortable and pleasant note for Mumbai. In fact, it has been the best beginning for Mumbaikars since the year 2009, according to a data available with Skymet.
In 2013, the average temperature of the first 10 days of March exceeded 38℃, with highest recording done on March 7 at 40.5℃.
Let’s have a look at the average maximum temperatures recorded in the first 10 days of March over Mumbai from the year 2009 to 2019:
As we can see, the lowest maximum in first ten days of March, out of all these years has been recorded in 2019 at 32.8℃.
The reason why temperatures have remained on the lower side this time is because of different weather activities going on in the northern parts of country.This is because the Western Disturbances are making back to back appearances over the Western Himalayas, thereby giving rains over north and northwestern parts of the country. These activities have an indirect impact on the temperatures of Mumbai.
Another factor for such pleasant weather in Mumbai is the cool sea breeze from the Arabian Sea.
According to Skymet Weather, for at least one week, in wake of activities over northern parts of the country, maximums in Mumbai will not shoot up and will settle below 35℃. Due to low temperatures, Mumbaikars will enjoy comfortable evenings, followed by relatively pleasant nights.
Image Credits – Mumbai Tourism
Any information taken from here should be credited to Skymet Weather