Summer heat back in Delhi, rain in northeast

Fri, May 16 11:05 PM

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Residents of the national capital experienced the summer heat again Friday as the temperatures began rising after staying below normal for the past week following the cyclonic pressure over the Bay of Bengal.

The maximum temperature in Delhi was 40.3 degrees Celsius Friday while the minimum was 27.6 degrees Celsius, two degrees above what is normal for this period of the season. The highest maximum temperature in the country was 45.4 degrees Celsius at Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Even as people in the northern plains braved the summer heat and started counting days before the monsoon arrives in the region, parts of north-eastern and eastern India received scattered rainfall. Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and eastern parts of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam received rain Friday and the the weather office forecast more showers for the region during next 3-4 days till Monday. The following were the maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall figure in major cities for the 24 hours till Friday evening, with figures in brackets denoting deviations from the average City Maximum Temperature Minimum Temperature Rainfall (C) (C) (mm) New Delhi 38.6 (-2) 27.2 (0) Nil Mumbai 33.0 (0) 26.6 (+1) Nil Chennai 41.5 (+5) 28.6 (+2) Nil Kolkata 35.8 (0) 25.7 (-1) 1.8 Ahmedabad 41.0 (0) 26.3 (0) Nil Bangalore 35.0 (+2) 22.2 (0) Nil Bhopal 41.0 (0) 27.8 (+2) Nil Bhubaneswar 38.0 (0) 23.5 (-3) 13.8 Chandigarh 38.4 (0) 25.2 (+1) Nil Dehradun 34.9 (-1) 22.4 (0) Nil Goa 34.2 (+1) 25.2 (+2) Nil Guwahati 35.0 (+4) 25.0 (+2) Nil Hyderabad 40.5 (+2) 28.0 (+2) Nil Jaipur 40.6 (0) 27.6 (+2) Nil Lucknow 39.0 (-1) 24.0 (0) Nil Nagpur 43.0 (0) 29.0 (+1) Nil Patna 34.2 (-6) 25.3 (-1) Nil Pune 35.9 (+3) 22.7 (+1) Nil Srinagar 28.6 (+5) 13.7 (+3) 0.4 Thiruvananthapuram 33.0 (+1) 25.6 (+1) Nil

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