After a hot & humid Durga Puja, rainfall throughout the day in Barak on Lakshmi Puja

Oct. 20: It was indeed a very unbearable weather during the recently concluded Durga Puja. People in Barak Valley are not at all habituated with such a hot and humid climate in the mid of October. Amid Covid restrictions, the scorching heat of the sun also played a spoilsport in allowing people to go for pandal hopping. Though many braved the high temperature and went around the pandals in the three districts of Barak Valley, yet it was so humid that made people really uncomfortable.

Bishu Roy, who runs a grocery shop near the Puja Pandal at Public School Road said, “I stocked cold drinks, ice-cream, different types of chocolates during the Puja. But due to hot weather, it was packaged drinking water which I sold maximum.” Another such grocery shop run by an elderly at Hospital Road also narrated similar views. He told, “I could not imagine that I would be able to sell such a huge quantity of drinking water, soft drinks and ice-cream. On Navami, people literally stood in a huge queue to purchase ice-cream and water.”

However, within a week, the weather underwent a radical change. The heat wave receded and rains swept across the valley. On the day of Laxmi Puja, incessant rainfall was noticed in Silchar, Karimganj and Hailakandi. From around 36 degree during the Durga Puja, the temperature came down to 25 degree on the day of Lakshmi Puja. Though it became difficult for the people to venture out in the rains, but even then people felt relieved as the excessive heat wave was no more. As per weather forecast, light to medium rainfall is likely to occur in Barak Valley till Friday.