Blame it on Climate change or god’s grace, as you may take it, Belgaum is getting back to as a poor man’s hill station. The temperature in past couple of days has gone down drastically. On 22^nd January minimum temperature was 9 °C.

See graph for January comparison as to how sudden the fall in temperature has been. Temperatures early morning and late night drop heavily.

The day temperatures are also below 21°C and today’s current temperature while posting this story is 21°C Degrees at 1.30pm. Even at this time of the day one can feel the cold and cold breeze.

For visitors, one can roam about and do shopping in this ideal weather.

The average January temperature over the year: High: 29.0 °C          Low: 15.0 °C

With the onset of December (almost) the weather in the city is getting cooler day by day. Today morning (30-11-2009) temperature recorded at Sambra was 12.4 deg C with clear sky.

The cold wave is ready to grip the entire north Karnataka. Yesterday temperature recorded was 11.6 degrees Celsius. Cool northerly winds, clear skies and a dry atmosphere are responsible for the cold wave. These minimum temperatures are between five to six degrees Celsius less than normal for this time of the year.

See five day forecast

It’s hardly March in its first week and the temperatures are making high peaks. Today the max was 36 and min recorded was 20 degrees Celsius.

 See the weekly temperatures in March 2009

 Monthly average temperatures of March 7, over the years.

 The sales of Fans have increased said a local dealer. He said normally the demand is there from mid march or later but these enquiries started in late February only and we are doing good business in this first week. The same is the case with AC’s. The sale of ice cream is rising day by day and as soon as the exams get over all the ice cream dealers will be doing brisk business.

Incase of ice cream this time in the city you can also taste Baskin Robbins at the Nucleus mall, elsewhere Aditya  ice cream is the latest new comer with easy availability almost all over, there are those old brands like Dinshaws and Amul also.

 The sale of eye glasses on the road side has also seen a rise. Juice centers, coconut vendors are doing brisk business as the temperature is rising day by day and there is no great relief.

See the gradual increase in the temperatures.

Just compare the monthly averages in Jan and Feb. this year and we could be heading for a very hot summer ahead. In May we could even break some records.

It is believed that after Holi if the rains come, they keep on coming in between till the monsoons. Let’s see Holi is a couple of days ahead and hope for the best.

See the forecast for the coming week, no sight of relief.