Heat wave to severe heat wave in Saurashtra, Kutch, rain and thundershowers in Northeast India

PUNE, Apr 29: Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are very likely in isolated pockets of Saurashtra and Kutch in Gujarat, while rain or thundershowers occurred at most places in Northeast India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

Day temperatures were markedly above normal (5.1 C or more) at a few places over Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad; appreciably above normal (3.1 C to 5.0 C) at isolated places over west Rajasthan, Saurashtra and Kutch; above normal (1.6 C to 3.0 C) at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, east Rajasthan, Gujarat Region, west Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa and Madhya Maharashtra, the IMD said.

The temperatures were markedly below normal (-5.1 or below) at many places over Bihar; at isolated places over east Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Sikkim; appreciably below normal (-3.1 C to -5.0 C) at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura; below normal (-1.6 C to -3.0 C) at a few places over east Madhya Pradesh, west Uttar Pradesh; at isolated places over Telangana, Rayalaseema, interior Karnataka and normal over rest parts of the country, the IMD bulletin said.

On Sunday, the highest maximum temperature of 46.4 C was reported at Barmer (west Rajasthan) in the country.

Hailstorm occurred at isolated places over east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha and coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are very likely in isolated pockets of Saurashtra and Kutch on April 29 and isolated heat wave conditions on April 30.

Heat wave conditions are very likely in some parts of west Rajasthan on April 29 and 30; in isolated pockets on May 1; in isolated pockets over Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and east Rajasthan on April 29 and 30.

Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and at many places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya and Gangetic West Bengal and at a few places in Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Odisha and Kerala and at isolated places in Jharkhand, Bihar, east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, coastal Karnataka, interior Karnataka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Mainly dry weather has prevailed in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada and Lakshadweep, the IMD said.

The following observations for the past 24 hrs were recorded at 8-30 am on Tuesday.

Temperature (deg. C) Max Min

——       ——

EAST INDIA

Agartala                31(-2)     22(-1)

Bhubaneswar       37(-1)     21(-5)

Darjeeling             16(-2)      09(-1)

Dibrugarh              26(-3)      19(-1)

Gangtok                17(-4)      11(-2)

Guwahati               28(-3)     21

Imphal                    27(-2)     16(-1)

Kohima                21(-4)        14(+1)

Kolkata                34(-2)         19(-7)

Pasighat               28(-1)      19(-1)

Patna                      30(-7)     23(-1)

Ranchi                    33(-4)     18(-4)

Shillong               21(-2)        13(-1)

NORTH INDIA

Allahabad              39(-2)     24(-1)

Ambala               39(+1)        25(+3)

Amritsar              41(+3)       23(+4)

Bareilly                36(-3)         23(-1)

Chandigarh         39(+2)        26(+4)

Dehra Dun              36(+1)     21(+1)

Jaipur                      42(+2)     27(+2)

Jodhpur               44(+3)         25(-1)

Lucknow              37(-3)       22(-1)

New Delhi               40(+1)      25(+1)

Shimla                     26(+3)      15(+1)

Srinagar                29(+6)         09

Varanasi                37(-3)       24

CENTRAL INDIA

Bhopal                     41               27(+2)

Indore                      41               25(+2)

Jabalpur               39(-2)        24(-1)

Nagpur                    42               25(-1)

Raipur                      38(-3)      23(-3)

Satna                       40(-1)       25

PENINSULA

Ahmedabad             44(+2)     27(+1)

Aurangabad             42(+2)     26(+1)

Bengaluru              34               24(+1)

Bhuj                           42(+2)     26(+2)

Chennai                    36(-1)       28(+1)

Gadag                       36(-2)      23

Hyderabad                37(-2)     26

Kanyakumari             35(+2)    25(-1)

Madurai                     37(-1)     26

Mahabaleshwar       33(+1)     21(+2)

Mangaluru              34               25

Mumbai                     34(+1)      26

Panjim                       35(+1)       27(+1)

Pune                       41(+2)       24

Rajkot                     46(+5)       25(+1)

Thiruvananthapuram 33        25

Tiruchirapalli               38              27

Vishakhapatnam     37(+1)       26(-1)

INDIAN ISLANDS

Car Nicobar              32                24

Minicoy                     33                26(-1)

Port Blair               32              26(+1)

(Notes: + indicates above normal, – indicates below normal)

(UNI)