Heat wave: Temperature may touch 47ºC
18 May 2016 5:48 AM IST
Temperatures could nudge 45 to 47 degrees Celsius in large swathes of north and northwest India for the rest of the week, the weather office has forecast, before conditions ease slightly with the onset of monsoon down south. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued “heat wave to severe heat wave” warnings for parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi, which are already baking in early-summer heat this year. Maximum temperatures could touch 45-47 degrees in a severe heat wave condition. “These conditions are likely to spread… during May 17-21.
They are likely to abate gradually during the remaining part of May,” the IMD said late Monday. Monsoon rains, which irrigate 60 per cent of India’s farms, are forecast to hit south India a week later than usual by June 7.
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