IMD Issues “Red Alert” for the Northern India as Heat Wave Intensifies, it Asks People to Stay home from 1-5pm

“Heat wave will prevail in many places and severe heat wave in isolated places. Mainly clear skies with strong surface winds (20-20 kilometers per hour),” the IMD forecast said.

The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative values of the city, recorded an increase of 44.4 degrees Celsius, which was five notches above normal, on Sunday. The minimum temperature was recorded at 28.7 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal.

Weather stations in Palam, Lodhi Road and Ayanagar registered trademarks of their respective maximum at 45.4 degrees Celsius, 44.2 Celsius degrees and 45.6 degrees Celsius.

Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the regional forecasting centre at the IMD, said that some respite from the sweltering heat is expected in the national capital, on the 28th of May due to a fresh Western Disturbance and easterly winds in the lower levels. “The dust of the storm and electrical storm with winds, with gusts of up to 60 kilometers per hour, it is likely that more of Delhi-NCR on May 29 and 30,” he said.

In addition to Delhi, the IMD has issued a “red alert” in the Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Rajasthan for the next two days. Has been issued “orange” alert for the east of Uttar Pradesh.

In large areas, a heat wave is declared when the maximum temperature is 45 degrees Celsius for two consecutive days and severe heat wave when the mercury touches 47 degrees Celsius mark during two days on the trot.

In small areas, such as the national capital, a heat wave is declared if the temperature rises to 45 degrees Celsius, even for a day, according to the IMD.

“The alert has been issued to caution people not to go out between 1pm and 5pm, when the heat is more intense,” Srivastava said.