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Kolkata: At 3.20 on Sunday afternoon, the sky went ominously dark. But, across the city, the mood lifted magically. As gusty winds swept up and twirled around dust, dry leaves and even garbage, the cheer spread. And, then came the rain. The long overdue Nor’wester was here at last.

The Met claimed this was not the season’s first Nor’wester. “The first occurred last month,” said an official. But that did not have the intensity to bring down the temperature. Sunday’s squall, however, had both the punch and the power to trigger a sharp drop in the degrees and cause some destruction. The city escaped with a few uprooted trees, but two persons died each in North and South 24-Parganas. Four grids of Eastern Railway at Ashoknagar, Titagarh, Sonarpur and Lakhikantapur were hit, stalling train services from Sealdah. In the Howrah section, too, there were some disruptions on the Basberia-Katwa line. Normal train services were restored by evening.