Mumbai: Mercury plummets to 13.4 degrees C

Weather officials said it was the wind direction owing to which both the maximum and minimum temperatures over the city and the suburbs were seeing a dip. K S Hosalikar, the deputy director general of meteorology at the regional IMD, said: “Lower level winds over Mumbai and north Maharashtra continued to remain northerly, lowering the temperatures in Mumbai and around.”

The minimum temperature recorded on Thursday by the Met department at Colaba was 17.6 degrees Celsius and 15 degrees at Santacruz. It was 1.5 degrees and 1.9 degrees Celsius below normal, respectively.

The city recorded moderate air quality index at 173. An AQI between 101 and 200 is moderate that means it poses only a moderate health risk to people sensitive to air pollution. However, BKC and Andheri recorded very poor air quality at 310 and 306, respectively, on Friday evening.