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The Meteorological Department of India (IMD), said on Monday the heat wave is likely to start subsiding from Thursday as the easterly winds begin to blow in the north of the country.
The weather service had on Sunday sounded a category red alert for Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, west and east Rajasthan for the Monday and Tuesday by the heat wave or severe heat waves.
“Rain accompanied with thunderstorm will start happening from the 29th of May due to the easterly winds in the north of India, and the temperature is expected to drop to 40 degrees Celsius,” Rajendra Kumar Jenamani, head of the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre, was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI on Monday.
IMD bulletin said that the heat wave conditions were also likely over Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Telangana during the next four to five days.
Similar conditions are predicted in some pockets of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Marathwada, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Rayalseema and north-interior Karnataka during the next three to four days.
A category red alert implies that the authorities should take measures to prevent health emergencies.
Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of to hit five degrees above normal for the second consecutive day, the Sunday.
The Safdarjung weather station recorded the maximum temperature of 44.4 degrees Celsius. In Aya Nagar, the maximum temperature was 45.6 degrees Celsius, 6 degrees above normal, and 44.2 degrees Celsius at Lodhi Road.
The south of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, reported the heat wave and Churu in west Rajasthan reported a severe heat wave on Sunday, with a maximum temperature of 47.4 degrees Celsius.
IMD had said Nagpur Sonegaon, in the Vidarbha region recorded 46.2 degrees Celsius; Churu in Rajasthan 46.6 degrees Celsius, Akola in Maharashtra 46 degrees Celsius.
Rajendra Kumar Jenamani also said that the southwest monsoon is likely to hit Kerala in next week.
“The southwest monsoon is expected to arrive over the Kerala coast between 1 June and 5 June and is likely to reach Mumbai by between 15 June and 20 June,” Jenamani said.
According to IMD, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely at a few places over Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, from May 24 to 28, due to the strong winds south of the Bay of Bengal, the northeastern states in the lowest tropospheric levels.
Heavy rain is also likely in parts of the south of the peninsula of India on May 26 and 27, it was said.
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