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| Heat wave continues across India, |
| Heat wave continues across India, 524 dead in Andhra Pradesh
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| INDIA
, 29-May-2013
1:32:3 AM |
| There will be no repsite from the intense heat wave today, says Met office, as temperatures remained above normal in most parts of the country on Tuesday.
According to the Andhra Pradesh's Department of Disaster Management, 524 people have died of sunstroke since April 1 across the state.
After a cloudy and windy Monday, it was back to being scorching hot in the national capital yesterday as the maximum temperature settled three notches above average at 43 degrees Celsius. The Met office has forecast similar weather today.
The heat wave will continue tomorrow (Wednesday) the skies will be sunny," an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to hover around 43 and 28 degrees respectively. Tuesday's minimum temperature was 29 degrees Celsius, two notches above average for this time of the season.
Monday's maximum temperature in Delhi was 42.6 degrees Celsius, two degrees above normal, while the minimum settled at 30.2 degrees Celsius, three notches above average.
Heat wave conditions continued to prevail in the desert state of Rajasthan with the mercury hovering between 40 to 45 degrees celsius.
Churu at 45.2 degrees Celsius was the hottest in the state. Sri Ganganagar was close at 44.4 degrees celsius.
State capital Jaipur was scorching at 41.9 degrees and the minimum temperature was at 32.4 degrees Celsius, almost five degrees above normal. Bikaner was also hot at 41.9 degrees Celsius.
The intense heat condition continued in Uttar Pradesh with the mercury soaring to 45 degrees Celsius in some parts of the state.
Most people stayed indoors as humidity and long hours of power outages and cuts added to people's woes.
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