Met: City to stay hot, humid for next 7 days

Kolkata: The maximum temperature touched the 35°C mark after a break during which the city was lashed by repeated thunderstorms. While the maximum clocked 35.2°C on a warm Sunday, the minimum touched 26.2°C.Last Friday, thunderstorms pulled the maximum temperature down to 26.5°C. On April 4, the mercury spiralled to 36.1°C. The city and south Bengal are set to remain warm and humid for the next seven days, said the Met office. "With no system or cloud cover, the sun is beating down and pulling the mercury up. 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 week. Rain and thunderstorms, however, have been predicted at several places across north Bengal and the Hills.