Bad air throws wet blanket on chilly weather

Citizens unable to fully enjoy pleasant climes; city was covered in thick smog for past two days

- FPJ News Service

This has been an exceptionally pleasant but polluted winter for Mumbai. While the temperatures have been low enough to sleep without a fan in the night for more than a month, the air quality index (AQI) has been bothering morning-walk goers for a week now. For the past two days, thick smog has blanketed the city until late in the evening.

The mercury is likely to dip by two to three degrees Celsius in the coming days. On Friday, Santacruz recorded minimum and maximum temperatures of 18.5 degrees and 30.8 degrees, respectively; the latter being two to three degrees lower than normal. Similarly, Colaba saw minimum and maximum temperatures of 21.1 degrees and 29.9 degrees, respectively.