A man splashes water on a hot summer day in Ajmer on Thursday. (PTI)
Weather News Highlights: Parts of Northwest, Central and East India will be experiencing heatwave conditions in the next 2-3 days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Saturday. “Heatwave conditions are likely in isolated places over Rajasthan, Jammu Division, Himachal, Uttarakhand, south Punjab and south Haryana-Delhi on June 4 and 5. Similar conditions will also prevail over Vidarbha, Jharkhand, interior Odisha and Chhattisgarh from June 4-6 and over southern Uttar Pradesh and north Madhya Pradesh from June 4-8.
National capital Delhi witnessed thunderstorm along with rainfall over the past few days that provided relief amid a scorching May which saw temperatures hovering around 40 degrees.
Delhi is likely to witness clear skies in the day and heatwave conditions are expected at a few places, the weather office informed. However, the IMD has issued a yellow alert, warning of a heatwave, at isolated places in the capital. The mercury may rise to 44 degree Celsius at the Safdarjung observatory, it added.
Parts of Northwest, Central and East India will be experiencing heatwave conditions in the next 2-3 days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Eighteen people were killed due to heatstroke since March out of the 31 suspected deaths as of June 3, according to official data. During the same period, 750 people suffered heatstroke in the state with 239 from Chandrapur district alone. However, no deaths were reported in the district.
Several districts in Maharashtra have reported above-normal temperatures in March-April this year. The Vidarbha and the central Maharashtra regions are reeling under several heatwave conditions since March. Even the coastal district of Mumbai has seen maximum temperature hit the 40-degree Celsius mark and severe heatwaves a few times. Rupsa Chakraborty writes
Nowgaon town in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district recorded the second highest temperature in the country at 46.5 degrees Celsius on Saturday, an official from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Nowgaon and Gwalior recorded maximum temperatures of 46.5 degrees Celsius and 46.2 degrees Celsius, respectively, becoming the second and the third hottest places in India during the day after Rajasthan's Ganganagar which recorded 47.5 degree Celsius, said P K Saha, senior meteorologist at IMD Bhopal office.
Heat waves swept Nowgaon and Khajuraho in Chhatarpur, Gwalior and Rajgarh districts, he said. As per the IMD forecast, heat wave conditions and gusty winds with speed of 30 to 40 kmph are very likely to hit isolated places in west Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, and similar conditions are very likely in isolated places in the eastern part of the state as well. (PTI)
The minimum temperature in Delhi settled at 27.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday as the city is poised to experience heatwave conditions at isolated places during the day, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The relative humidity was 23 per cent at 8.30 am.
The weatherman has forecast a partly cloudy sky with heat wave conditions at isolated places and strong surface winds with a speed of 20-30 kmph during the day. Delhi's maximum temperature is likely to touch 43 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.
On Saturday, the maximum temperature touched 43.9 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average while the minimum temperature touched 28.7 degrees Celsius, one notch below the average. (PTI)
Parts of Northwest, Central and East India will be experiencing heatwave conditions in the next 2-3 days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Saturday. “Heatwave conditions are likely in isolated places over Rajasthan, Jammu Division, Himachal, Uttarakhand, south Punjab and south Haryana-Delhi on June 4 and 5. Similar conditions will also prevail over Vidarbha, Jharkhand, interior Odisha and Chhattisgarh from June 4-6 and over southern Uttar Pradesh and north Madhya Pradesh from June 4-8.
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Parts of Northwest, Central and East India will be experiencing heatwave conditions in the next 2-3 days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Saturday.
“Heatwave conditions are likely in isolated places over Rajasthan, Jammu Division, Himachal, Uttarakhand, south Punjab and south Haryana-Delhi on June 4 and 5. Similar conditions will also prevail over Vidarbha, Jharkhand, interior Odisha and Chhattisgarh from June 4-6 and over southern Uttar Pradesh and north Madhya Pradesh from June 4-8. Read More
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The minimum temperature in Delhi on Saturday settled at 28.7 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The maximum temperature is expected to touch 44 degrees Celsius, it said.
The national capital is likely to witness clear skies in the day and heatwave conditions are expected at a few places, the weather office said. The IMD has issued a yellow alert, warning of a heatwave at isolated places in the capital.
The mercury may increase to 44 degrees Celsius at the Safdarjung observatory, it said. The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi's base station, had recorded a maximum temperature of 42.9 degrees Celsius on Friday. The IMD uses four colour codes for weather warnings -- green (no action needed), yellow (watch and stay updated), orange (be prepared) and red (take action).
"Heatwave is back over parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, south Uttar Pradesh and isolated pockets of Delhi-NCR," said Mahesh Palawat, vice president (climate change and meteorology), Skymet Weather. A heatwave is declared when the maximum temperature is over 40 degrees Celsius and at least 4.5 notches above normal. ---PTI
The summer of 2022 -- one of the hottest in history -- has witnessed widespread ozone exceedance, making the air of Delhi-NCR more toxic, according to an analysis conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
The green think tank's assessment is based on the publicly available granular real time data (15-minute averages) from the CPCB's official online portal Central Control Room for Air Quality Management.
In Delhi-NCR, the researcher captured data from 58 official stations. The analysis tracked exceedances at each station. Breach of the standard by even one station is considered exceedance by the city. Days with multiple stations exceeding the standard indicates the severity of the spatial spread and number of people exposed.
This year, due to the early onslaught of heatwaves, the spatial spread of ground-level ozone started in March itself with April being the worst so far, the green thinktank said. ---PTI
The flood situation in Assam improved on Friday with all major rivers of the state flowing below the danger mark even as nearly 70,000 people remain affected by the deluge across five districts and some new areas were inundated due to heavy rain, an official bulletin said.
According to a daily report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), 69,610 people in Cachar, Dima Hasao, Kamrup Metropolitan, Morigaon and Nagaon districts continued to suffer from floodwater.
The count of people hit by the deluge was 74,800 in four districts till Thursday. The death toll due to the flood and landslides this year remained at 38 as no fresh fatality was reported on Friday. ---PTI
The southwest monsoon Friday advanced into West Bengal, at least four days ahead of its normal onset date and has covered some parts of the sub-Himalayan districts of the state, the Met department said.
It said that a cyclonic circulation over north coastal Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal and strong southwesterly winds from Bay of Bengal to northeast India will cause heavy rain in the northeastern states and sub-Himalayan West Bengal during the next five days. (PTI)
Most places in the western parts of Rajasthan recorded day temperature above 45 degrees Celsius on Friday, Meteorological Department said.
According to a MeT spokesperson, the highest maximum temperature of 46.3 degrees Celsius was recorded in Sri Ganganagar on Friday.
Maximum temperature was recorded 46 degrees in Churu, 45.9 degrees in Dholpur, 45.4 degrees in Nagaur, 45.3 degrees each in Bikaner and Anta, 45.2 degrees in Vanasthali, 44.9 degrees each in Pilani and Kota, 44.8 degrees each in Barmer and Phalodi and 44.6 degree Celsius in Sangria, the spokesman said. (PTI)
A heatwave saw the mercury breach the 45-degree Celsius mark in parts of capital on Friday and it is likely to get worse on the weekend.
At the Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi's base station, the maximum temperature settled at 42.9 degrees Celsius as against 42 degrees Celsius on Thursday and 41.9 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.
The maximum temperature at Mungeshpur (45.5 degrees Celsius) and Pitampura (45.6 degrees Celsius) settled five notches above normal. (PTI)
The flood situation in Assam improved on Friday with all major rivers of the state flowing below the danger mark even as nearly 70,000 people remain affected by the deluge across five districts and some new areas were inundated due to heavy rain, an official bulletin said.
According to a daily report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), 69,610 people in Cachar, Dima Hasao, Kamrup Metropolitan, Morigaon and Nagaon districts continued to suffer from floodwater. The count of people hit by the deluge was 74,800 in four districts till Thursday.
The death toll due to the flood and landslides this year remained at 38 as no fresh fatality was reported on Friday. (PTI)
Temperatures crossed 45 degrees Celsius in several parts of Vidarbha in Maharashtra on Friday, prompting the India Meteorological Department to issue a heatwave warning for the region.
The IMD's Regional Meteorological Centre here has issued a 'yellow alert' and forecast heatwaves till June 5 in some areas of Wardha and Chandrapur and till June 4 in places in Nagpur and Gondia.
"In the 24-period ending at 8.30 am today, Chandrapur recorded 46.8 degrees Celsius, Brahmpuri 45.3 degrees Celsius, Wardha 45.4 degrees Celsius and Nagpur 45 degrees Celsius," an RMC official informed. (PTI)
Heavy rainfall triggered wterlogging at NH-37 at Jorabat area, outskirts of Guwahati which lies along the Assam-Meghalaya border.