Met Office forecasts warm winter

The Met Office said on Monday that January, usually the coldest month of the winter season, might not record a severe cold wave.

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A severe cold wave is a meteorological phenomenon in which the minimum temperature over a large area drops below 6C.

In January, severe cold is common, often more than once, while there are occasions when temperature falls below the 6C mark in December, the first winter month, meteorologists say.

But this year, no severe cold wave has been recorded so far, despite the monthly weather outlook for January forecasting two to three cold waves, one of them moderate, in the month.

‘We are clearly set to experience a warmer winter,’ senior meteorologist Abdul Mannan told New Age.

The Met Office data showed that the daily minimum temperature stayed mostly above 10C this winter, except for a very few days of a mild cold wave.

The lowest winter temperature of 8.4C so far has been recorded in the northern district of Naogaon on December 23.