{"id":7352,"date":"2019-11-19T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:40:51","slug":"kolkata-and-south-bengal-to-be-cooler-by-2-3c-from-wednesday-winter-likely-around-dec-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/kolkata-and-south-bengal-to-be-cooler-by-2-3c-from-wednesday-winter-likely-around-dec-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata and south Bengal to be cooler by 2-3\u00b0C from Wednesday, winter likely around Dec 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperature in Kolkata and parts of south Bengal may come down by 2-3\u00b0C from Wednesday, say weather experts.<\/p>\n<p>Cold air from the north-west has already started entering West Bengal and the eastern parts of the country. The temperature over the next few days may touch 18\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>However, this does not indicate arrival of winter officially because such abrupt lowering of temperature in parts of the country may happen due to local influences.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago there was heavy snowfall in Jammu-Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, which led to winter-like conditions in parts of eastern India. Officially, the ideal winter arrives when temperature reaches 15\u00b0C and stays that way for four to five days.<\/p>\n<p>This year, such conditions may develop close to December 15. For the coming few days, the maximum temperatures during daytime may remain between 30-32\u00b0C. The humidity in the air has also started decreasing which is favourable for the development of a wintry climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humidity has started decreasing which is favourable for winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":7353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}