By IANS,
New Delhi : Residents of the national capital experienced the summer heat again Friday as the temperatures began rising after staying below normal for the past week following the cyclonic pressure over the Bay of Bengal.
The maximum temperature in Delhi was 40.3 degrees Celsius Friday while the minimum was 27.6 degrees Celsius, two degrees above what is normal for this period of the season.
The highest maximum temperature in the country was 45.4 degrees Celsius at Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Even as people in the northern plains braved the summer heat and started counting days before the monsoon arrives in the region, parts of north-eastern and eastern India received scattered rainfall.
Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and eastern parts of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam received rain Friday and the the weather office forecast more showers for the region during next 3-4 days till Monday.
The following were the maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall figure in major cities for the 24 hours till Friday evening, with figures in brackets denoting deviations from the average
City Maximum Temperature Minimum Temperature Rainfall
(C) (C) (mm)
New Delhi 38.6 (-2) 27.2 (0) Nil
Mumbai 33.0 (0) 26.6 (+1) Nil
Chennai 41.5 (+5) 28.6 (+2) Nil
Kolkata 35.8 (0) 25.7 (-1) 1.8
Ahmedabad 41.0 (0) 26.3 (0) Nil
Bangalore 35.0 (+2) 22.2 (0) Nil
Bhopal 41.0 (0) 27.8 (+2) Nil
Bhubaneswar 38.0 (0) 23.5 (-3) 13.8
Chandigarh 38.4 (0) 25.2 (+1) Nil
Dehradun 34.9 (-1) 22.4 (0) Nil
Goa 34.2 (+1) 25.2 (+2) Nil
Guwahati 35.0 (+4) 25.0 (+2) Nil
Hyderabad 40.5 (+2) 28.0 (+2) Nil
Jaipur 40.6 (0) 27.6 (+2) Nil
Lucknow 39.0 (-1) 24.0 (0) Nil
Nagpur 43.0 (0) 29.0 (+1) Nil
Patna 34.2 (-6) 25.3 (-1) Nil
Pune 35.9 (+3) 22.7 (+1) Nil
Srinagar 28.6 (+5) 13.7 (+3) 0.4
Thiruvananthapuram 33.0 (+1) 25.6 (+1) Nil