By IANS
New Delhi : With Holi closing in, the weather in northern India is getting just right for a colour-splash festival. The mercury Thursday continued its upward trend with the day’s high in Delhi at nearly 35 degrees Celsius, four notches above normal.
Though Delhiites still enjoy pleasant mornings and cool nights, sudden rise in the maximum temperature has signalled the coming of a strong summer this time.
The minimum temperature was recorded at 19.5 degrees Celsius, four degrees above the normal.
Most parts of the northern plains also saw temperatures being 4-6 degrees above normal. The Met Office said that the current temperature trends are likely to continue for the next two-three days from Thursday.
The weather office said a low-pressure area developed over Arabian Sea is likely to bring widespread rain to Kerala and Lakshadweep.
The following were the maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall in major cities for the 24 hours till Thursday morning, with figures in brackets denoting deviations from the average.
City Maximum Temperature Minimum Temperature Rainfall
(C) (C) (mm)
New Delhi 35.4 (+4) 17.7 (+3) Nil
Mumbai 31.8 (-1) 20.4 (0) Nil
Chennai 33.3 (+1) 26.4 (+3) Nil
Kolkata 33.3 (-1) 26.2 (+4) Nil
Ahmedabad 35.3 (-1) 19.5 (+1) Nil
Bangalore 31.0 (-2) 20.3 (+1) Nil
Bhopal 37.1 (+3) 18.0 (+1) Nil
Bhubaneswar 35.3 (0) 24.1 (+2) Nil
Chandigarh 33.6 (+5) 18.0 (+4) Nil
Dehradun 31.4 (+4) 13.6 (+2) Nil
Goa 33.0 (+2) 25.4 (+2) Nil
Guwahati 30.5 (+1) 17.4 (+1) 18.4
Hyderabad 35.9 (+1) 23.6 (+4) Nil
Jaipur 37.2 (+6) 20.2 (+4) Nil
Lucknow 33.4 (0) 19.4 (+4) Nil
Nagpur 38.0 (+1) 24.4 (+5) Nil
Patna 32.8 (0) 19.3 (0) Nil
Pune 36.9 (+1) 17.6 (+2) Nil
Srinagar 18.0 (+4) 6.1 (+2) 1.8
Thiruvananthapuram 26.6 (-5) 23.3 (+1) 31.5