This story is from January 2, 2021

Pune experiences its warmest January 1 morning after 2013

The city experienced its warmest New Year morning in eight years on Friday, while parts of north India shivered under cold conditions on the first day of 2021.
Pune experiences its warmest January 1 morning after 2013
A man walks through greeneries amid fog on Friday morning in Kothrud
PUNE: The city experienced its warmest New Year morning in eight years on Friday, while parts of north India shivered under cold conditions on the first day of 2021.
The minimum temperature in Shivajinagar on Friday was as high as 15.5°C, making this New Year Day morning the warmest after January 1, 2013, when the minimum temperature had climbed up to 17.2°C. The minimum temperature at the location this January 1 was almost five degrees higher than that recorded on the same day last year.
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The first morning of 2021 was warm across the city.
The minimum temperature on Friday in Pashan was 15.7°C and it was 16.8°C in Lohegaon.
The city’s minimum temperature remained above normal under the influence of southerly winds over Pune and parts of Maharashtra. India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday forecast a gradual rise in minimum temperature in Maharashtra by 2-4°C during the next three days because of the southerly wind influence.
The IMD officials stated that Madhya Maharashtra was currently recording one of the highest positive departure in minimum temperature in the country. Locations in Madhya Maharashtra, including Pune, recorded positive minimum temperature departures by 2-7°C on Friday, while those in
Konkan and Marathwada recorded positive departures by 2-4°C.
An IMD official said, “The minimum temperature is expected to rise because of a fresh weather system moving towards south peninsular India causing good rain over southern states. It will influence the weather over Madhya Maharashtra up to Pune and Nashik, causing night time clouding, which is associated with higher minimum temperature. Cloudy skies tend to trap the warm, outgoing long wave radiation from the earth’s surface during the night, curtailing its full escape into the atmosphere.”
The official said the north-east monsoon had become active over south India during its last leg. “Northerly winds have been unable to penetrate into parts of Maharashtra, causing the night temperature to remain on the higher side. The dominant wind regimes during the past one month on most days have been easterly/south-easterly and now southerlies. These winds from the Bay of Bengal are relatively warmer and moist in nature in comparison to the cold, dry northerly winds from north India. Hence, they affect the weather of the region as per their nature,” he said.
The official said northerly wind influence can be seen in Maharashtra by this time, especially with January beginning, when the night temperature dip significantly. This hasn’t happened in 2021. “The influence of southerly winds in parts of Maharashtra during the New Year period (like this time) is an anomaly,” he added.
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Neha Madaan

Neha Madaan is a senior feature writer at The Times of India, Pune. She holds an M A degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from University of Pune. She covers tourism, heritage development and its conservation, apart from an array of subjects such as civic issues, environment, astronomy, civic school education as well as social issues concerning persons with disabilities. Her interests include metaphysical research and animal rights.

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