Delhi swelters at 45.2°C; dust or thunderstorm expected on June 12-13

NEW DELHI: Delhi continued to sizzle on Tuesday with Palam recording the maximum temperature at 47 degree Celsius, and Safdarjung was at 45.2, though it was a shade better than the last few days.

The Met department indicated that there was a possibility of dust or thunderstorm on June 12-13 due to mixing of hot and dry winds from the northwest and moist winds from the Arabian Sea.

The four-month-long southwest monsoon has been slow off the blocks, missing its June 10 date with Mumbai, but advanced further into parts of West Bengal and the North Eastern states on Tuesday.

“Conditions are favourable for further advancement of southwest monsoon into some more parts of central Arabian sea, remaining parts of coastal Karnataka and some parts of Konkan and Goa during the next 2-3 days,” said the India Meteorological Department.

Thunderstorm over Uttarakhand, Assam, Tripura and Kerala and changing wind conditions in Delhi from westerly to south westerly are expected to bring down temperatures during the next 24 hours.

The minimum temperatures continue to be above normal by 4-6 degree Celsius at many places over Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Vidarbha, and at a few places over Jharkhand and Madhya Maharashtra and at isolated places over the western Himalayan region.

On Tuesday, maximum temperature recorded in Nowgong in Madhya Pradesh at 47.8 degree Celsius, while Agra recoded 47.3 degree Celsius. In Khajuraho and Satna in Madhya Pradesh, the mercury was at 47.2 degree Celsius Temperatures in Rajasthan and Gujarat dipped owing to a weather formation over the Arabian Sea.

Ganga Nagar in Rajasthan, which was boiling at 48 degree Celsius on Monday, the temperature dropped to 45.4 degree on Tuesday. According to the Met, heat wave conditions are likely to prevail at many places over north west and Central India in the next 24 hours.

Dust and thunderstorm would occur at isolated places over west and east Madhya Pradesh and at isolated places over Chhattisgarh. Isolated heavy rainfall would occur in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep.