Mumbai has lost its coolness, with the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Santacruz observatory on Tuesday recording a temperature of 21.9 degrees C, a departure of 1.3 degrees C from normal, and its Colaba counterpart reporting 23.9 degrees C, a departure of 0.8 degrees C from the norm.

The chill in the air experienced by Mumbaikars past week, when temperatures dipped to lower than 17 degrees C, as much as 4 degrees C below normal, has passed this week. Over the past two days, Mumbaikars have experienced warm and humid weather conditions. A senior IMD official said, “The temperature change is because of a change in wind patterns. We are now experiencing easterly and south easterly winds from the systems in the Bay of Bengal. This leads to more humid weather conditions.”