Akola in Maharashtra recorded a maximum temperature of 46.9°C on Sunday, April 26, as the mercury continued to rise across parts of India. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the highest maximum temperature of 46.9°C was reported at Akola (VIDARBHA).
The IMD said heat waves were observed at several places in Vidarbha and isolated areas of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
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The IMD said the maximum temperatures on April 26 ranged from 40 to 46 ℃ in most parts of the country, except the western Himalayas, northeast Bihar and northeast India where they were below 36 ℃.
Maximum temperature departures as on 26 April were significantly above normal (> 5.1 °C) at several places over Himachal Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh and East Madhya Pradesh; in isolated places over East Uttar Pradesh, West Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan and Saurashtra & Kutch.
Temperature was noticeably above normal (3.1 °C to 5.0 °C) at many places over Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Jammu-KashmirLadakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, West Rajasthan and Gujarat region; in most places over Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi; at several places above Vidarbha; in isolated places over Odisha, Bihar, Konkan & Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal and Kerala & Mahe.
Above normal (1.6 °C to 3.0 °C) temperature was recorded at many places over south interior Karnataka; at several places over Arunachal Pradesh, coastal Karnataka and Lakshadweep; in isolated places over Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gangetic West Bengal, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam and North Interior Karnataka.
Near normal temperature (-1.5°C to 1.5°C) was observed at several places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura; in isolated places over Assam and Meghalaya and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.
The IMD has predicted that scorching conditions will continue over parts of northwest and central India for the next three days.
