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New Delhi, May 24
With temperatures surpassing 45 degrees Celsius-brand through various parts of northern India, the Meteorological Department of India (IMD) on Sunday issued a “red” warning of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Rajasthan for the next two days.
The IMD has also issued an orange alert for a heat wave to the east of Uttar Pradesh, said Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of IMD’s Regional Meteorological Centre.
Warned that temperatures could soar up to 47 degrees Celsius in some parts during the next 2-3 days.
This is also, for the first time this summer season that a red alert has been issued for a heat wave, Srivastava said.
This season, the temperatures do not rise the way it normally does in the north and central India because of the significant rainfall activity during the month of April and continued until mid-May.
Saturday, Pilani in Rajasthan recorded 46.7 degrees Celsius.
“Heat wave in some parts, with a severe heat wave in more isolated pockets, it is very likely that most of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Telangana during the next five days,” the IMD said in its daily bulletin.
He added that heat wave conditions at isolated pockets over Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Gujarat, central Maharashtra and Vidarbha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Rayalseema and north interior Karnataka, it is also likely that during the next 3-4 days.
A heat wave is declared when the maximum temperature is at least 40 degrees Centigrade and the output of the normal temperature is 4.5 degrees Celsius to 6.4 degrees Celsius.
For the plains, a heat wave is declared when the maximum temperature is 45 degrees Celsius and severe wave of heat when it is 47 degrees Celsius or more.
The IMD issues colour-coded warnings depending on the intensity of any weather system in ascending order – green, yellow, orange and red.
Srivastava said that a red alert has been issued to caution people not to leave from 1 pm to 5 pm when the intensity of the heat is the most.
Naresh Kumar, a scientist with the National Weather Forecasting Centre at the IMD, said that due to the dry winds from the northwest and a channel between Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu, the conditions are favorable for the heat wave to severe heat wave.
Kumar, said the relief is only expected after the May 28, as a western disturbance is likely to bring some precipitation.
A western disturbance is a cyclonic storm that originates in the Mediterranean and traveling through Central Asia. When it comes into contact with the Himalayan mountain range, which brings rains to the plains and hills. PTI
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