Heat Wave and Temperature Observed in past 24 hours (0830 hrs IST of 4 April to 0830 hrs IST of 5 April)

 

Heat Wave

Heat wave conditions observed at many places with severe heat wave at a few places over West Rajasthan; at a few places over East Rajasthan, north Madhya Pradesh & Jharkhand and at isolated places over East Uttar Pradesh & Chhattisgarh

 

Maximum Temperatures

Yesterday maximum temperatures > 43.0°C were observed at Khajuraho: 43.2°C and Wardha: 43.0°C.

 

Maximum temperature departures as on 04.04.2017: Maximum temperatures were markedly above normal (5.1°C or more) at many places over Himachal Pradesh; at a few places over Jharkhand; at isolated places over East Madhya Pradesh, appreciably above normal (3.1°C to 5.0°C) at many places over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, rest MadhyaM Pradesh, Jharkhand & Uttar Pradesh; at a few places over Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada and Vidarbha; at isolated places over rest Jharkhand; above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at many places over Vidarbha, Telangana & South Interior Karnataka; at a few places over Konkan & Goa, Odisha and at isolated places over Gangetic West Bengal, Saurashtra & Kutch. They were markedly below normal (5.0°C or less ) at many places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim; at a few places over Bihar, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura; appreciably below normal (3.1° C to 5.0° C) at a few places over Jammu & Kashmir and at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh & Odisha and near normal over rest of the country. Yesterday, highest maximum temperature of 43.2°C recorded at Khajuraho (East Madhya Pradesh)

 

Temperatures Recorded at 1430 Hours IST of Today, the 5^th April 2017

o    Temperature are more than 40.0°C at isolated places over north Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha; interior Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Rajasthan, North Interior Karnataka and Rayalaseema.

o    Temperature rose by 1-2°C at a few places over coastal Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Assam & Meghalaya. 

 

Heat Wave Warnings for Next 5 Days

 

	04 April (Day 1): Heat wave conditions very likely isolated places over West Rajasthan, East Uttar Pradesh and East Madhya Pradesh.   05 April (Day 2): NIL   06 April (Day 3): NIL   07 April (Day 4): NIL   08 April (Day 5): NIL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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