Temperature soars to 408 degrees Celsius just shy of 1953 March record

  • | Sunday | 31st March, 2019

PUNE: The city continued to simmer on Saturday with maximum temperature hitting 40.8°C, highest for March since 1953 when it had soared to 41.1°C.The Saturday’s high was recorded both at Shivajinagar and Lohegaon, and was 0.4°C more than the Friday’s maximum temperature of 40.4°C. “No weather systems and dry weather are causing clear skies, aiding bright sunshine to reach the earth surface directly. Combine this with hot winds from the north and heat conditions will intensify,” he said. An anticyclone near south Pakistan is causing the winds to turn clockwise. The winds entering into Maharashtra are coming from hot regions like south Rajasthan and southwest MP,” Palawat said.He said central India and adjoining regions have heated up off late with the advent of summer.

PUNE: The city continued to simmer on Saturday with maximum temperature hitting 40.8°C, highest for March since 1953 when it had soared to 41.1°C.The Saturday’s high was recorded both at Shivajinagar and Lohegaon, and was 0.4°C more than the Friday’s maximum temperature of 40.4°C. “There might not be any let up in the heat for parts of Maharashtra , including Madhya Maharashtra, for the next three to four days,” a weather expert said.Officials of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said heatwave was reported from Satara in Madhya Maharashtra, Parbhani in Marathwada, Akola, Amravati , Nagpur and Wardha in Vidarbha.An IMD official said all these locations had a maximum temperature departure of over 4.5°C. “One of the criteria for declaring a heatwave is when the day temperature of a station reaches at least 40°C or more for plains, 37°C or more for coastal stations and at least 30°C or more for hilly regions. In such cases too, heatwave is declared when the temperature departure from normal is 4.5°C to 6.4°C,” the IMD official said, adding that there was no heatwave warning for Madhya Maharashtra and Vidarbha for Sunday.Mahesh Palawat, chief meteorologist, Skymet Weather Services, said heatwave was being reported from parts of north Madhya Maharashtra, Vidarbha, adjoining west Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Rajasthan.“Maximum temperature at Khargone (West MP) has touched 44.5°C, highest in the country. An anticyclone near south Pakistan is causing the winds to turn clockwise. The winds entering into Maharashtra are coming from hot regions like south Rajasthan and southwest MP,” Palawat said.He said central India and adjoining regions have heated up off late with the advent of summer. “No weather systems and dry weather are causing clear skies, aiding bright sunshine to reach the earth surface directly. Combine this with hot winds from the north and heat conditions will intensify,” he said.

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