Kolkata was noticeably warmer on Wednesday than Tuesday with the bright sun reducing the chill factor even though the minimum temperature in the morning was 10.3° Celsius, only 0.1° higher than the previous day. On Tuesday morning Kolkata had recorded a minimum temperature of 10.2° Celsius at the Alipore weather station, the coldest January day in many years. The minimum temperature in the city has been around 3.6° below normal. In the plains of south Bengal, Sriniketan remained the coldest at 6.6° C, while in north Bengal the town of Jalpaiguri recorded 7.5°. In the rest of south Bengal, the temperature is likely to remain three to five degrees below the normal.

Source: The Telegraph January 07, 2026 09:22 UTC