The India Meteorological Department in its latest release has warned of heatwave and severe heatwave conditons in East India till May 2, adding that the situation will gradually improve thereafter. The Southern Peninsular India during the next five days will also likely experience heat wave conditions, IMD said.
Heat Wave to severe heat wave conditions very likely to prevail till May 2 in many places over Gangetic West Bengal, which includes southern parts of Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur excluding some extreme northern regions, South Dinajpur, Cooch Behar, and Malda districts.
Some parts of Odisha, Bihar and isolated pockets of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, and Jharkhand will also very likely experience hear wave to severe heat wave conditions till May 2, the intensity of which will reduce thereafter with heat wave conditions in isolated pockets over the region, the weather department said.
On heat wave in the state, IMD Bhubaneswar Director Manorama Mohanty says, "In Odisha, 30 cities reported 41°C and above and 29 cities recorded 42°C and above. Baripada in Mayurbanj district reported 46.4°C. Balasore reported 46°C which is the highest temperature recorded in the last 10 years..."
IMD's forecast stated that heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are very likely to prevail in isolated pockets over Rayalaseema, Saurashtra during next 5 days.
Isolated pockets over Telangana, Interior Karnataka, Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam during next 5 days will witness heat wave conditions.
Meanwhile, Kerala during April 30- May2; Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra, and Marathwada during April 30- May 1 and Tamil Nadu during May 1- 3, will experience heat wave conditions, IMD said.
IMD Forecasts Heavy Rains For Northeast India During Next 3-4 Days
As some parts of India will sizzle with heat, the Northeast region is predicted to receive heavy rainfall spell accompanied with thunderstorm and gusty winds during the next 3-4 days, IMD said in its bulletin.
The weather department has predicted fairly light to moderate rainfall or snowfall accompanied with isolated thunderstorm, lightning, and gusty winds of 30-50 kmph will very likely occur over Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Mizoram, and Tripura during next 5 days along with isolated hailstorm over Sikkim today. The rainfall is predicted in view of a cyclonic circulations over northeast Bangladesh and northeast Assam.
Due to these cyclonic distrubances, isolated heavy rainfall will very likely over Arunachal Pradesh and Assam and Meghalaya during April 30-May 2 and over Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura during May 1-3.
Besides this, IMD has predicted isolated very heavy rainfall over Arunachal Pradesh on May 1 and 2, and Mizoram and Tripura on May 2.
Meghalaya is also very likely to receive extremely heavy rainfall on May 2.
Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, Chandigarh, and Delhi will very likely witness strong surface winds (25-35 kmph) during April30 –May2, the IMD bulletin noted.