There will be no respite from the sultry weather conditions in West Bengal as the Regional Meteorological Centre predicted the situation to deteriorate with no rains in the next couple of days.
"Severe heatwave like situation is likely to be over Bankura, Birbhum and Burdwan districts and very likely over West Midnapore, Nadia, Murshidabad, Howrah, Purulia and Malda districts of West Bengal," a senior official of the RMC, Kolkata told PTI today.
The state today witnessed two deaths, one in Birbhum's Suri and another in Howrah, reportedly because of heat stroke as heatwave conditions prevailed at isolated places over Purulia, Howrah and Bankura districts in Gangetic West Bengal.
While the mercury rose to the maximum 45 degrees Celsius in Bankura, Sriniketan and Burdwan recorded 42 deg C followed by Krishnagar (44), Behrampur (41), Malda (41) and Kolkata (39).
"There will be no change in the weather conditions as heatwave will persist in the next 48 hours. The scattered heatwave and isolated severe heatwave will continue because moisture from the Bay of Bengal has moved towards Bangladesh and the North-Eastern Himalayan region of Assam and Tripura resulting in heavy rainfall there. This is also the reason why it is so dry in West Bengal this year and it will continue be so in the next 72 hours," the official said.
On chances of any rains in the weekend or early next week, the MeT official said "Chances are very slim. Though there was moderate rain at many places over Sikkim and very light rain at a few places in Jalpaiguri districts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal, rainfall in the Gangetic Bengal is very unlikely this weekend or early next week."
Weather remained dry over the district of Burdwan with the temperature reaching to 43.6 deg C in Asansol, the Met office said.
