BENGALURU: Winter is here. After a delay of about a fortnight, Winter has finally arrived in the city. And if you are a person who doesn’t like it cold, here’s something to cheer about: This year’s winter is likely to be as short as about a month.Weather experts account the delay in Winter to the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal last month, which ensured that there was a cloud cover all through, till the last week of December. All through December, the minimum temperature stayed at about 17-19 degrees. But on January 1, it dropped to 15.7 degrees and from there to 12 degrees on January 2. On Sunday, the temperature further dropped to 13 degrees at its minimum.Although January and February are generally considered as the official winter season in the city, Winter usually begins setting in around mid December. But this year, Winter set in only during the end of last week.According to MB Rajegowda, Agrometeorologist at University of Agricultural Sciences, “Because of the Cyclone this year, there was a lot of cloud cover around mid December, when Winter begins setting in. It is only in the last week of December that the cloud lifted and Winter set in,” he said.According to the Meteorological department, this year’s winter is likely to be colder than the 30 year old average of about 15 degrees. The Met department predicts that the average temperature during the next few days is likely to be around 14 degrees and will continue to get colder.Last year, temperatures in Bangalore went to a record low of 8 degrees. However, this year, the temperature is likely to be around 10 degrees when Winter is at its peak, said Rajegowda.“Temperatures will continue dropping till about the end of the month. We expect that at its lowest, the temperature could touch 10 degrees, around January 28. At this point, we do not think it will get lower than that,” Rajegowda said.