ELECTIONS '98
COMMENTARY
SPECIALS
INTERVIEWS
CAPITAL BUZZ
REDIFF POLL
DEAR REDIFF
THE STATES
YEH HAI INDIA!
ARCHIVES

Heat wave kills three in Maharashtra

Three people died of sunstroke in the last 24 hours in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district. Officials said two of the victims were from Bhusawal taluk while the third was from Jamner.

The city recorded 46 degree celsius.

Heat wave conditions also prevailed in parts of South Gujarat.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in coastal Karnataka, Kerala, parts of Central Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and northern interior Karnataka.

They were above normal in southern coastal Orissa, Konkan, Marathwada, Vidarbha, the remaining parts of Tamil Nadu and parts of Telengana and Rayalseema.

They were appreciably to markedly below normal in Bihar, hills of West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu, Northwest Rajasthan and parts of northern coastal Orissa, and below normal in southern coastal Andhra Pradesh.

They were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and interior Karnataka from where data was sparse.

Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few places in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, hills of West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

Rain or thundershowers are also likely to occur at isolated places in Andaman and Nicobar islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, coastal Orissa, plains of West Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalseema, Tamil Nadu and southern interior Karnataka.

Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers occurred at a few places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Punjab, and at isolated places in Andaman and Nicobar islands, Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, West Rajasthan, Rayalseema, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

	Temperatures (Degrees C)
City	Maximum	Minimum
Agartala	30 (-4)	22 (-2)
Allahabad	41 (-1)	29 (+3)
Amritsar	31 (+2)	11 (-2)
Ahmedabad	40 (-1)	28 (+2)
Aurangabad	43 (+4)	25 (+2)
Bangalore	35 (+2)	23 (+2)
Bhopal	34 (-1)	17 (-2)
Bhubaneshwar	36 (0)	24 (0)
Bombay	35 (+2)	28 (+1)
Calcutta	35 (-1)	27 (+1)
Chandigarh	34 (-3)	20 (-2)
Dehradun	28 (-7)	17 (-3)
Guwahati	31	23 (+1)
Hyderabad	40 (+1)	25 (-1)
Jaipur	41 (+1)	24 (-1)
Jabalpur	42 (+1)	28 (+4)
Kanyakumari	35 (+2)	26
Lucknow	39 (-2)	27 (+3)
Madras	37	28 (+1)
Mangalore	37 (+4)	27 (+2)
Nagpur	44 (+1)	28
New Delhi	38 (-2)	23 (-2)
Patna	31 (-3)	15 (-4)
Panaji	36 (+3)	28 (+1)
Pune	42 (+5)	24 (+2)
Rajkot	41 (+1)	26 (+2)
Satna	43 (+1)	29 (+3)
Shimla	23 (+1)	11 (-3)
Thiruvananthapuram	35 (+3)	27 (+2)
Varanasi	40 (-2)	27 (+1)
Vishakhapatnam	35 (+1)	30 (+3)

UNI

Tell us what you think of this report