Pune sees season’s coldest and decade’s hottest day in Feb

Pune | Thursday | 21st February, 2019

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Day temperatures may dip partially from Thursday,” Anupam Kashyapi, head of the weather department at IMD, Pune, told The Indian Express. Pune has recorded similar hot days only twice — 37.4 degrees Celsius in 2009 and 37.2 degrees Celsius in 2016. Since the beginning of this week, high day temperatures have prevailed in all areas of the state except Konkan. PUNE recorded the hottest February day in a decade when mercury soared to 37.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. But on Wednesday, the mercury rose to 5.2 degrees above the normal mark, making it an unusually warm day for Pune..