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Gulbarga reels under severe heatwave

Gulbarga is reeling under oppressive heatwave conditions with the temperature reaching 43 degrees celcius today, the highest during this summer.

Weather office sources said the heatwave conditions may subside in a couple of days as there is a forecast of early showers.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in Assam, Meghalaya, Kashmir, interior Tamil Nadu, coastal Karnataka and in some parts of Telangana, Rayalaseema. They were above normal in southwest Rajasthan, Kerala and in some parts of west Madhya Pradesh, central Maharashtra, Vidarbha and north interior Karnataka.

They were below normal in some parts of Bihar plateau, coastal Andhra Pradesh and were normal over the rest of the country.

Rain or snow has occurred at one or two places in Himachal Pradesh.

Rain or thundershowers have occurred at a few places in Bihar plateau and at one or two places in Orissa and east Madhya Pradesh. Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or snow is likely to occur at one or two places in the hills of west Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.

UNI

	Temperatures (Degrees C)
City	Maximum	Minimum
Agartala	35	25 (+3)
Allahabad	40 (+2)	22
Amritsar	34 (+1)	14 (-2)
Ahmedabad	39	23
Bhopal	38 (+1)	22 (+1)
Bhubaneshwar	36 (-2)	25 (0)
Bombay	33 (+1)	25 (0)
Calcutta	37 (+1)	28 (+3)
Chandigarh	35 (+1)	20 (+1)
Dehradun	31	17 (+1)
Guwahati	36 (+1)	20
Hyderabad	41 (+4)	24 (+1)
Jaipur	37 (+1)	23 (+3)
Jabalpur	39 (+2)	23 (+4)
Kanyakumari	33 (+2)	29 (+3)
Lucknow	38	20
Madras	36 (+1)	25 (-1)
Mangalore	37 (+3)	27 (+2)
Nagpur	41 (+2)	24 (+1)
New Delhi	35 (-1)	19 (-1)
Patna	39 (+1)	21 (-1)
Panaji	34 (+1)	25 (0)
Pune	38 (+1)	20 (+1)
Raipur	41 (+2)	27 (+2)
Satna	37 (-1)	24 (+3)
Shimla	20 (+1)	6 (-5)
Srinagar	23 (+4)	6 (-1)
Thiruvananthapuram	34 (+2)	27 (+2)
Vishakhapatnam	35 (+2)	24 (-2)
Varanasi	39 (+1)	21 (-1)

UNI

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