Mumbai recorded this season’s hottest day on Sunday, with maximum temperature rising to 36.7 degrees Celsius, four degrees above normal. Daytime temperatures are likely to stay around this mark for the next two days.

Minimum temperature early on Sunday was 21.4 degrees Celsius, just one degree below normal.

Mumbaikars were lucky this year as the winter chill extended up to a few days in March. Maximum temperatures started climbing only after March 15, coupled with a rise in humidity. After hovering around the 30-degree mark till then, maximum temperature rose to 36.6 degrees Celsius on March 15.

On Saturday, too, the Santacruz observatory of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had recorded maximum temperature of 35.4 degrees Celsius, with weathermen forecasting similar temperatures for Sunday.

The IMD has attributed this rise to the change in wind direction from north westerly to westerly into easterly. The all-time March high for Mumbai is 41.7 degrees Celsius, recorded on March 28, 1956.