Summer Watch: No thundershowers, brace up for 40s again

Hold your umbrellas people, but hold them just. There will be no thundershowers, not yet, says the weatherman but the temperatures that dropped by a couple of degrees are likely to touch 40s again during this weekend again.

The Met department predicts a small rise in temperatures over the next couple of days, so don’t forget to apply that extra layer of sunblock lotion when you step out this weekend. 

The mercury hovered around 38 degrees on Friday, which was no departure from the normal. But the real relief must have been felt in the night.

It was predicted to drop below 20s and the forecast was 18 degrees. So if you felt that early morning chill, remember, you read it here first. But the lowest temperature in the country was recorded at Adampur in Punjab where it was just 15.0 centigrade.

And for those who wanted to be enlightened on the subject of global warming, here is what a latest NASA study has found -- it provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. The study shows for the first time how rising carbon dioxide concentrations could affect the entire range of rainfall types on Earth.

To read more, visit http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/may/HQ_13-119_Rainfall_Response.html