- June 1 to 27: 50mm
- June 28 to 29: 92mm
Monsoon’s first heavy rain significantly reduced the June rain deficit in Calcutta.
The city on Friday night received its first spell of heavy rain since the onset of monsoon on June 21.
The Met office recorded around 92mm of rain in Alipore, the official record-keeper for Calcutta, between 5.30pm on Friday and 5.30pm on Saturday.
The rain deficit in June was over 81 per cent in Calcutta till Friday. The spell of heavy rain narrowed the gap to 54 per cent, said a Met official.
On Saturday, Calcuttans woke up to a cloudy sky after a rainy Friday night. Rain that looked imminent since morning started in the afternoon. The showers picked up intensity around 2.30pm, wrapping the city in a haze and slowing traffic.
In Calcutta, rain is likely for the “next four to five days”. Districts like South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas are likely to get more rain than Calcutta.
The sky is likely to remain cloudy. The conditions will keep the day temperature under control, the Met official said.
Around 9.30pm on Friday, the Met office issued an alert for an “intense spell of rain and thunderstorm” in Calcutta in the next couple of hours. The prediction turned out to be true. The rain that started as a drizzle soon picked up steam. It came down in more than one spell.
Entire Calcutta got rain on Friday but some places were not as drenched as some other places were.
“The northern and northwestern parts of the city got less rain than the south and southwestern parts,” said a Met official.
Multiple districts in south and north Bengal were battered by heavy rain on Friday night.
The next few days are also likely to be rainy.
“Yesterday’s low-pressure area now lies over northwest Bay of Bengal adjoining north Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal coasts with the associated cyclonic circulation extending upto 7.6km above mean sea level,” said a Met bulletin on Saturday.
