Jammu City Sizzles At 40.3°C Amid Continuing Heat Wave

Jammu, May 25: There is no respite from the prevailing heat wave conditions as the Jammu city today experienced the maximum temperature around 40.3 degrees Celsius.
Jammu district today recorded a maximum of 40.3 degrees Celsius, and the minimum was 24.6 degrees Celsius, while Katra town in Reasi district was the second hottest place at 37.8 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature was 22.6 degrees Celsius.
However, Banihal recorded 25.6 degrees Celsius, Batote 28.1 degrees Celsius, and Bhaderwah 27.2 degrees Celsius, according to the data provided by the MeT department.
Meanwhile, a MeT official said that May 25 experienced generally dry weather with brief showers, gusty winds, and hailstorms towards late afternoon hours at scattered places, and May 26-27 will experience generally hot and dry weather.
However, May 28 and 29 will experience generally cloudy with one or two spells of rain, thundershowers and hailstorms with gusty winds at scattered to fairly widespread places and May 30 to June 3, the weather will be generally dry with brief spells of rain and thundershower at isolated places towards late afternoon hrs can’t be ruled out.
The Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department has announced summer vacations for Classes 1 to 6 (Primary) from June 1 to July 22 and for Classes 7 to 12 from June 8 to July 22.
The hilly tourist spots like Bhaderwah, Kishtwar, Patnitop, Nathatop, Sanasar, and Bani in the Jammu Division also witnessed a rush of visitors in view of prevailing hot weather conditions.