In Delhi, it was a very humid day with mercury settling close to 38 degrees Celsius, a day after rains hit the national capital. The maximum was recorded at 37.8 degrees Celsius, one notch below the normal, a MeT Department official said.
According to the MeT department, isolated parts of Uttar Pradesh received heavy rainfall. Three children were killed by lightning strike in Siddharth Nagar, while six persons, including three minors, were killed in lightning strikes at Jaswant Nagar area in Etawah on Monday night.
In yet another incident, three children were killed as their house collapsed on Tuesday morning in Ambarpur village in Kanpur.In Bihar, rain in the evening brought down temperatures in Patna and other parts of state. Capital Patna received 17.2 mm rain, while the temple town of Gaya registered 32.6 mm rain and Bhagalpur 25.7 mm, MeT office there said.
Temperature was high during the day with Patna recording 37.4 degree Celsius. Maximum temperature in Gaya was recorded 38.8 degrees, while it was 36.7 degrees in Bhagalpur, it said.
In Odisha too, parts of the state received rainfall like the coastal areas in Balasore and Mayurbhanj. The maximum rainfall recored was 4 cm.
While temperature remained below 40 degree mark in all the places, relative humidity was in few areas. Bhubaneswar recorded a high of 34.5 degrees Celsius and received 10.3 mm of rain though the humidity level was 94 per cent causing discomfort to people.
In the east, monsoon has been active in parts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal, while the southern districts of the state received scant rainfall, the MeT department here said.
Mumbai received its first good rainfall, but services of Central Railway were crippled due to waterlogging and technical snags that badly hit the movement of commuters and office-goers.