By IANS
New Delhi : The mercury continued its upward trend Saturday in northern India with the temperature in the national capital recorded at nearly 36 degrees Celsius.
Delhi had a sunny and warm day as the maximum temperature was at 36.5 degrees Celsius. But what is more worrying for the Delhities is that the minimum temperature was at nearly 24 degrees Celsius, about five degrees above the normal.
Most parts of the northern plains had temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius.
Many parts of Orissa were in the grip of a heat wave as the mercury crossed the 40-degree mark Saturday. The maximum temperature was recorded in Cuttack city at 40.6 degrees Celsius.
“A heat wave is gripping many parts of the state with at least two towns Saturday witnessing temperatures of over 40 degrees,” an official of the Bhubaneswar Met Office told IANS.
The western Orissa town of Jharsuguda recorded 40.4 degrees Celsius and Cuttack saw the day’s high at 40.6 degrees Celsius, he said. Similarly, at least five towns recorded over 39 degrees Celsius temperatures.
The weather trend is likely to continue in the coming days and the climate will remain dry in most parts of the state, he said.
Most parts of the country remained dry Saturday, except parts of southern peninsula. The Met Office has forecast that extreme southern peninsula may receive more rain in the next three-four days from Saturday.
The following were the maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall in major cities for the 24 hours till Saturday morning, with figures in brackets denoting deviations from the average.
City Maximum Temperature Minimum Temperature Rainfall
(C) (C) (mm)
New Delhi 36.5 (+1) 24.8 (+5) Nil
Mumbai 37.0 (+4) 24.1 (+1) Nil
Chennai 35.1 (+2) 26.4 (0) Nil
Kolkata 39.0 (+3) 26.2 (+1) Nil
Ahmedabad 39.5 (0) 23.3 (0) Nil
Bangalore 32.8 (-1) 19.7 (-1) Nil
Bhopal 38.9 (+2) 22.1 (+1) Nil
Bhubaneswar 40.2 (+3) 24.7 (0) Nil
Chandigarh 35.8 (+2) 21.6 (+4) Nil
Dehradun 33.6 (+3) 21.5 (+5) Nil
Goa 34.1 (+1) 25.6 (+1) Nil
Guwahati 35.0 (+3) 21.5 (+1) Nil
Hyderabad 36.3 (-1) 22.5 (0) Nil
Jaipur 39.8 (+4) 22.0 (+1) Nil
Lucknow 38.6 (+2) 21.2 (+2) Nil
Nagpur 41.0 (+2) 22.9 (0) Nil
Patna 39.0 (0) 22.4 (0) Nil
Pune 38.6 (+2) 19.8 (+1) Nil
Srinagar 20.7 (+1) 10.2 (+3) 1.0
Thiruvananthapuram 31.7 (-1) 24.9 (0) Nil