KOLKATA: A huge cloud mass that engulfed the Kolkata sky in the afternoon broke open around 3pm, lashing the town with a thunderstorm and pulling the mercury down by 10°C on Sunday. The town additionally recorded a rainfall of 23.6mm in about oneand-a-half hours. Sunday’s storm claimed eight lives in three districts. Five boys died after being hit by lightning in Uluberia, two died in Ghatal and one in Jalangi. One boy from Uluberia is scuffling with for life in the sanatorium with 70% burns.
The rain used to be accompanied by a gusty wind. Some tram traces had been snapped and lighting struck a three-storey residential construction in Sinthee. Fortunately, no one used to be injured. Two passengers had been injured when their auto keeled over near Gariahat. Places like Kankurgachhi underpass, Thanthania and Ultadanga underpass went below ankle-deep water.
Around 1.20pm the Met place of job issued a thunderstorm alert for Kolkata, Howrah and Hooghly inside the next three hours. By 2pm, the town had plunged into darkness below the cover of thick clouds.
“The cloud mass moved in opposition to the town at a slow pace in the absence of very robust winds. That is why the rain lingered,” mentioned G Ok Das director (climate) at RMC Kolkata.
A squall passed over the town at three.25pm with a wind velocity of 52kmph. But it slowed regularly. Traffic motion used to be disrupted for approximately an hour when a tree used to be uprooted on Santoshpur Avenue. An lamppost stuck hearth at Sibtala Maath , snapping power connections in the house. A fire comfortable used to be deployed to place out the flames.
An east-to-west trough line from Uttar Pradesh to Nagaland, throughout Bengal and Bihar, driven up the thundercloud formation. Almost all southern districts of Bengal gained moderate rainfall. There used to be hailstorm in Hooghly and Howrah.
“Since the skin has already cooled, chances of convective cloud formation in Gangetic West Bengal is low on Monday, except some device develops over Bihar and Jharkhand,” mentioned Das.
The rain used to be accompanied by a gusty wind. Some tram traces had been snapped and lighting struck a three-storey residential construction in Sinthee. Fortunately, no one used to be injured. Two passengers had been injured when their auto keeled over near Gariahat. Places like Kankurgachhi underpass, Thanthania and Ultadanga underpass went below ankle-deep water.
Around 1.20pm the Met place of job issued a thunderstorm alert for Kolkata, Howrah and Hooghly inside the next three hours. By 2pm, the town had plunged into darkness below the cover of thick clouds.
“The cloud mass moved in opposition to the town at a slow pace in the absence of very robust winds. That is why the rain lingered,” mentioned G Ok Das director (climate) at RMC Kolkata.
A squall passed over the town at three.25pm with a wind velocity of 52kmph. But it slowed regularly. Traffic motion used to be disrupted for approximately an hour when a tree used to be uprooted on Santoshpur Avenue. An lamppost stuck hearth at Sibtala Maath , snapping power connections in the house. A fire comfortable used to be deployed to place out the flames.
An east-to-west trough line from Uttar Pradesh to Nagaland, throughout Bengal and Bihar, driven up the thundercloud formation. Almost all southern districts of Bengal gained moderate rainfall. There used to be hailstorm in Hooghly and Howrah.
“Since the skin has already cooled, chances of convective cloud formation in Gangetic West Bengal is low on Monday, except some device develops over Bihar and Jharkhand,” mentioned Das.
Squall cools Kolkata by 10 degree Celsius
![Squall cools Kolkata by 10 degree Celsius]()
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May 14, 2018
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