Kolkata’s tryst with rainy weekends refused to end as menacing clouds darkened the skies early on Saturday morning. Thunderstorm with lightning and light to moderate showers are forecast over Kolkata, Hooghly and North 24 Parganas districts in the first half of the day.
Amit Datta/My KolkataWith barely three weekends left for Bengal’s biggest festival, Durga Puja, the rain (photograph shows a housing complex in Salt Lake) dashed the hopes of a Saturday shopping spree.
Arranged by My KolkataThough the weatherman had forecast fairly widespread showers and isolated heavy rainfall over Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal from September 18 to 20, the bright orangish hue of the Kolkata skies at dusk on Friday had held out the hope of better weather.
Amit Datta/My KolkataThis is the second monsoon system that has formed over the Bay of Bengal in quick succession this week. The city had begun the week with heavy downpour and waterlogged streets (seen in photograph on September 14, Monday).
Amit Datta/My Kolkata