Heatwave condition continues, Phalodi in Raj records 46.5 C

Heatwave conditions continued to sweep several parts of the country today with Rajasthan's Phalodi recording the maximum temperature of 46.5 degrees Celsius.
National capital New Delhi faced unpleasant weather conditions where the maximum temperature was recorded at 42 degrees Celsius, three notches above normal.
In Rajasthan, the highest temperature of 46.5 was recorded at Phalodi town in Jodhpur district, followed by Sri Ganganagar (46.3), Churu (46), Bikaner (45.8), and Barmer (45.2), and Jaipur (43.3).
Heat wave prevailed across Uttar Pradesh with Allahabad being the hottest place at 45.1 degrees Celsius.
In Punjab and Haryana, Hisar was the hottest place at 44.7 degrees Celsius and most places in the two states recorded the season's highest maximum temperature so far, the MeT Department office in Chandigarh said.

In Punjab, Amritsar recorded 42.3 deg C, up five notches above normal.

In Odisha, after a brief respite from scorching heat, the mercury soared in most parts of the state where Bhawanipatna remained the hottest place at 45.5 degrees Celsius. The state capital Bhubaneswar touched 44 degree Celsius.
Eastern state of Jharkhand also faced heatwave conditions where the maximum temperature of 44.2 degrees Celsius was recorded at Jamshedpur followed by Palamu (43.8), Garhwa (43), and Ranchi and Lohardagga (both 40).
In West Bengal, Kolkata sizzled at 40.1 degrees Celsius, where the MeT department forecast possibility of rain and thunderstorms within a couple of days.

Bihar continued to sizzle under spell of heatwave with Gaya being the hottest place at 42.9 degree Celsius followed by Patna (40.4).
In Kerala's capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, where the maximum temperature was 35 degrees Celsius, the District Collector has ordered no schools will function till May 20 due to heatwave conditions.
Yesterday, two persons - 50-year-old daily wage worker Damodaran had collapsed and died, and 80 year-old Cheriya Raman, who was walking on the road collapsed and died, in suspected case of sunstroke deaths in Kerala's Kozhikode.
Four members of a family were washed away last night when
their house was damaged in a landslide following heavy rains in Kashiyapunji area of Bhubanpahar, about 35 km from Silchar in Assam, police said.

The bodies of two were later found while those of the other two were still missing, they said, adding that seven houses were also washed away by heavy rains in nearby Bhubangram village.
The NDRF has launched a rescue operation for those affected.
The 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed due to landslides triggered by heavy rains in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The temperatures hovered close to normal in Punjab and Haryana with rains lashing a few places in the two states.
Many places in western Uttar Pradesh and a few places in the eastern parts of the state witnessed light to moderate rain and thundershowers. There was heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places.

The MeT department has forecast rain and thundershowers at isolated places of western Uttar Pradesh tomorrow.
Heavy to very heavy rain is likely at isolated places of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.
Heavy rain is likely at isolated places of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, coastal Karnataka and Kerala.
There is a forecast of heavy rain in the sub-Himalayan West Bengal districts of Darjeeling, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri for the next two to three days, while the southern districts are likely to get brief spells of showers as various parts of the state received light to moderate rain today.

Sriniketan recorded the day's highest temperature in the state at 34.8 degrees Celsius, while in both Bankura and Asansol, the day temperature was recorded at 34.4 degrees Celsius.