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April 27, 1999 ELECTIONS '98 |
Jamshedpur records 45.2 degree CelsiusThe heat wave searing Bihar continued Tuesday with Jamshedpur recording a high of 45.2 degree Celsius to become the hottest city in the state. Patna and its adjoining areas were comparatively less hot. The maximum temperature during the day there read 43 degree Celsius. Gaya registered a marginal rise in day temperature, with the mercury touching 44.4 degree Celsius. The maximum temperature in Bhagalpur was 43 degree Celsius, the same as Monday. Meanwhile, 11 persons died in the two-day heat wave sweeping the southern Sindh province of Pakistan. Victims crowded hospitals in Karachi as the port city sweltered under 42.5 degrees Celsius. Thousands of chickens died in the rural areas of the province where the highest day temperature of 45.5 degrees Celsius was recorded in the desert town of Chhor. Rain or thundershowers are likely at many places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, and at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep. Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country. Rain or thundershowers occurred at most places in Assam and Meghalaya, at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Lakshadweep and at isolated places in south interior Karnataka and Kerala. Heat wave conditions prevailed in Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh and in parts of Orissa, in the plains of west Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Vidarbha and Telengana. Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in West Bengal, Sikkim, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and in the remaining parts of Rajasthan and Vidarbha. They were above normal in parts of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Saurashtra, Kutch and north interior Karnataka. They were appreciably below normal in parts of Assam, Meghalaya, central Maharashtra, south interior Karnataka and Kerala. They were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh and the hills of west Uttar Pradesh from where the data were sparse.
Temperatures (deg C)
Max Min
Agartala 37(+2) 27(+3)
Ahmedabad 41(+1) 24
Allahabad 45(+5) 25(+1)
Amritsar 41(+5) 16(-2)
Aurangabad 40(+1) 23
Bangalore 31(-2) 19(-2)
Bareily 44(+5) 25(+2)
Bhubaneshwar 40(+2) 29(+3)
Bhopal 43(+4) 25(+2)
Bombay 32(-1) 26
Calcutta 38(+2) 28(+2)
Chandigarh 41(+5) 20(-1)
Dibrugarh 23(-6) 21(+1)
Dehra Dun 39(+5) 19
Gadag 36(-1) 21(-2)
Gangtok 22 16(+3)
Guwahati 33(+1) 23(+2)
Indore 43(+4) 22
Jabalpur 43(+4) 27(+5)
Jaipur 43(+5) 25(+2)
Jodhpur 43(+3) 24
Kanyakumari 30(-2) 25(-1)
Lucknow 44(+4) 25(+3)
Madras 38(+2) 26(-1)
Madurai 35(-1) 25
Mangalore 34(+1) 25
New Delhi 42(+4) 22(-1)
Nagpur 46(+5) 29(+3)
Panjim 33 25(-1)
Patna 43(+4) 25(+1)
Pune 34(-3) 21
Rajkot 42(+2) 23
Raipur 45(+4) 28(+1)
Satna 44(+4) 25(+1)
Shillong 27(+3) 18(+3)
Shimla 27(+6) 18(+5)
Srinagar 27(+6) 8(-1)
Thiruvananthapuram 31(-1) 23(-2)
Tiruchirapalli 37 26
Varanasi 45(+5) 23(-1)
Vishakhapatnam 37(+4) 30(+3)
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