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Mercury to dip further, rains likely

THE mercury plunged about 5 degrees yesterday and was likely to dip further as another cold front hits the city late today, weather forecasters said yesterday.

The air quality was also slightly polluted.

The benchmark Xujiahui weather station recorded a high of 19.9 degrees Celsius and a low of 16.3 yesterday.

The cold front also brought rain with it with Xujiahui recording 31.9 millimeters of rain between 8pm on Monday and 8am yesterday.

It should be cloudy in daytime today, but chances of drizzle later in the evening, according to the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau.

It is forecasted to be lightly to moderately polluted in the morning, but the air quality should turn better in the afternoon to good, the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center said yesterday.

The two cold fronts are the strongest since the onset of autumn in the city on October 8, a bureau official said.




 

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