Odisha reels under heatwave conditions, Jharsuguda boils at 44.1 degrees Celsius

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reeled under heatwave conditions on Saturday as at least 17 places in the state recorded a maximum temperature of 40 degrees Celsius and above, officials said.

The industrial town of Jharsuguda was the hottest place in the state at 44.1 degrees Celsius, nearly 2.9 degrees Celsius above normal, followed by Titlagarh at 44 degrees Celsius, according to the evening bulletin of the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre.



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The places which recorded temperature above 40 degrees Celsius were Bolangir (43.5), Nuapada (43), Sundergarh (42.8), Rourkela, Sambalpur and Hirakud (42.6), Bhawanipatna and Boudh (42).

State capital Bhubaneswar recorded a high of 36.8 degrees Celsius, while Cuttack 36.6 degrees Celsius. The relative humidity in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack was 77 and 79, respectively.

In a forecast for Sunday, the IMD said that hot and humid conditions are very likely to prevail at isolated places over 15 districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Jharsuguda, Bolangir, Sambalpur and Angul.

It also forecast thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty surface winds are likely to occur in the afternoon/evening hours of Sunday at one or two places over the districts of Ganjam, Gajapati, Koraput, Rayagada, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Malkangiri.