Calcutta, Feb. 9: The city and the districts received scattered rain today, bringing back the hint of a chill, but the Met office said the weather would look up from tomorrow.

The state will also celebrate a sunny Saraswati Puja, the Met office added.

An anti-cyclonic circulation (clockwise movement of air) over the Bay of Bengal had been loading the atmosphere with moisture over the past few days, said G.C. Debnath, director of the weather section at the Regional Meteorological Centre in Alipore.

A trough of low pressure over Gangetic Bengal today helped rain clouds to form, he added. The Met office recorded 2.5mm of rain from morning till 5.30pm. “The weather is expected to improve gradually from tomorrow,” Debnath said.

The rain made the city shiver a little, a change from the warm spell over the past couple of days. The maximum temperature dipped to 23.2°C, six degrees below normal.

Debnath said the rain could cause the minimum temperature in Calcutta and south Bengal to drop by two to three degrees in the next 48 hours.