Kolkata: The city remained warm and humid even as the maximum temperature crawled up to 33.6°C on Saturday. It could rise further and touch 35°C on Sunday, said the Met office. With no system in the region, the mercury will gradually climb and could hover around 35°C-36°C for the next one week. The minimum temperature clocked 23.6°C in Kolkata on Saturday.“It will remain largely dry and warm across south Bengal over the next seven days. Chances of rain or thunderstorms are low. A few areas may receive localised thundershowers, but they are likely to be mild and few. The warm spell could be broken after a week, but there are yet no specific indications,” said Regional Meteorological Centre weather scientist Sourish Bandopadhyay.The season’s first scorching spell was broken by multiple thunderstorms and rain in Kolkata between April 5 and 9. They brought the mercury down by several notches after a warm spell that saw the mercury shoot up to 36.1°C last Saturday.
