India
Many parts of the country continued to reel under blistering heat wave conditions with Titlagarh in Odisha recording the highest maximum temperature in the plains at 46.5 degrees Celsius.
Updated : May 23, 2017, 09:09 PM IST
Many parts of the country
continued to reel under blistering heat wave conditions with
Titlagarh in Odisha recording the highest maximum temperature
in the plains at 46.5 degrees Celsius.
Delhiites experienced humid weather with the mercury
settling within normal levels.
The humidity levels oscillated between 86 and 30 per
cent.
The maximum temperature was recorded at 38.3 degrees
Celsius, two notches below the season's average.
The minimum temperature was pegged at 23.3 degrees
Celsius, three notches below the normal, said a Met department
official.
In Rajasthan, several places in Jodhpur division received
rainfall, bringing some respite to the people.
Barmer was hottest in the state with a high of 42.8
degrees Celsius followed by Jaisalmer which recorded a maximum
temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius.
According to the MeT department, Churu, Kota,
Sriganganagar, Bikaner and Jaipur recorded maximum of 42.
2 degrees Celsius, 42.1, 41.1, 40.8 and 39.8 degree Celsius
respectively.
Maximum temperatures hovered around normal level in most
parts of Punjab and Haryana.
Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states,
recorded a high of 39 degrees Celsius, the local MeT
Department said.
The mercury in Ambala and Hisar settled at 38.8 and 41.1
degrees Celsius respectively.
Karnal recorded maximum temperature of 39 degrees
Celsius, while Narnaul recorded 40.5 degrees Celsius, one
below normal, it said.
Amritsar's maximum temperature was 37.4 degrees Celsius,
one notch below normal. Ludhiana and Patiala recorded their
maximums at 38.8 and 39 degrees Celsius respectively, the
weatherman said.
Odisha remained in the grip of scorching heat wave
conditions as the mercury breached the 43 degree-mark in at
least nine places and 40 degree-mark in 13 places.
Titlagarh was closely followed by Balangir, which
recorded a maximum temperature of 46 degrees Celsius, while
the mercury stood at 45 degrees Celsius at Bhawanipatna and
Malkangiri, 44.5 at Sonepur, 44.1 at Angul, 43.8 at
Jharsuguda, 43.7 at Hirakud and 43.3 degrees Celsius at
Sambalpur, it said.
The maximum temperature stood at 42.4 degrees Celsius at
Phulbani town, while it was 41.5 at Talcher, 41 at Sundargarh
and 40.2 degrees Celsius in Chandbali, the MeT office said.
Bhubaneswar recorded a high of 39.2 degrees Celsius,
while Cuttack city recorded maximum temperature of 38.5
degrees Celsius.
Eight heat-related deaths have been reported in the state
so far this summer, the Special Relief Commissioner's (SRC)
office said.
In Bihar, weather remained hot and dry with Dehri-On-Sone
in Rohtas district recording the highest maximum temperature
in the state at 43.6 degrees Celsius.
Gaya recorded the maximum temperature at 43.1 degrees
Celsius, followed by Bhagalpur at 40.7, Patna at 39.6 degrees
Celsius and Purnea at 36 degrees Celsius.
In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, weather remained dry in
most parts of the state.
Allahabad was the hottest place in the state with maximum
temperature of 43.6 degrees Celsius.
Day temperatures were above normal limits in Gorakhpur,
Varanasi, Faizabad and Allahabad, the local MeT Department
said.
The weatherman has predicted heavy rain at isolated
places in Karnataka and Kerala. Thundersquall at isolated
places in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram,
Tripura, West Bengal and Sikkim.
Thunderstorm with gusty winds at isolated places in
Odisha, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu.
Heat wave conditions to continue in parts of Odisha.
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