New Delhi (NVI): Several parts in North and West India are witnessing heatwave conditions, with Churu in Rajasthan sizzling at 50 degrees Celsius and parts of the national capital Delhi recording over 47 degrees temperature.
At a maximum temperature 46 degrees Celsius, Delhi recorded the hottest day in the month if May yesterday in 18 years since 2002. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued Orange alert for Delhi, as heatwave sweeps across North India.
The heatwave comes even as the region struggles with rising Covid-19 cases and swarms of locusts destroying crops.
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre of the IMD, due to prevailing dry northwesterly winds over plains of northwest India, Central India & adjoining interior parts of eastern India, present heatwave conditions very likely to continue to prevail mainly during next 24 hours.
Heatwave conditions will be witnessed at many places with severe heatwave in isolated pockets very likely over Vidarbha in Maharashtra.
The weatherman has forecast heatwave conditions at a few places with severe heatwave in isolated pockets over West Rajasthan.
Apart from that, heatwave conditions are likely in some pockets over Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and East Rajasthan and in isolated pockets over Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Saurashtra & Kutch, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Telangana and North Interior Karnataka during next 24 hours, IMD said.
According to the weather department, heatWave is considered if the maximum temperature of a station reaches at least 40°C or more for plains, 37°C or more for coastal stations and at least 30°C or more for hilly regions.
